Managing Change in the Workplace: A Human Resources Perspective

Importance of Change Management to Human Resources

Task:

Change is continually occurring in the workplace, and it can affect all employees. The Human Resources professional skills plays an important role in change management within an organization. The purpose of this assignment is to research change management and demonstrate your understanding by reflecting on yourpersonal experience with workplace changes, and then consider those same changes through the perspective of a Human Resources professional within an organization that you might have an interest to work for.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

Explain the importance of change management to the role of a human resource professional skills.

Employ change management theories and metrics to different organizational scenarios.

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Required Sections:

1. Select a change related to a corporation that have been mentioned in the news and provide the article or video about the upcoming change. Reflect on this change:
a. Classify the type of change and the pressures that force this change.
b. Explain the positive effect this change might bring to the organization.
c. Describe the resistance that the change might trigger.
d. Explain the three level of organizational readiness.
2. Research the Alberta Human Rights Act to understand the protected grounds that you cannot discriminate in the workplace.
a. Summarize four protected grounds in Alberta Human Rights Act.
b. Explain two advantages from the perspective of a Human Resources Practitioner for implementing best practices meeting the requirements of non-discrimination.
3. Plan how you will integrate the change.
a. Create a strategy of how to implement this change using the four-step formula and
b. Reference specific sections of Alberta Human Rights of Alberta that will support the proposed change.
c. Identify the positive behaviors you will be observing in the employees to this change.
d. Discuss how you will minimize the resistance to this change.
e. Describe two metrics you will use to support the implementation of the new practices.
4. Establish an employee performance management instrument.
5. Establish a communication plan.