Change Management In Apple: Objectives, Principles, Stakeholder Analysis Essay.

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Discuss About The Condition On Reaction Organizational Change?

Apple is one of the monster company in the field of the technological industry and it is important to adapt changes as per the need of the time in manner to fulfil the needs and requirements of its consumers. Recently, leadership has been changed in the Apple and that is a type of change that has helped in better managing the operational activity of the Apple. The purpose of this report is to present context related to the change management in the Apple and provide the aspects related to the change implementation within the existing system of the organization.

He or she is generally an executive within the organization, who is responsible for enforcing the decisions and resource allocations related to the constraints of the Apple. He or she is a stakeholder who must be included within the all phases of the project or change in manner to get approval on the decisions and discuss the changes those are about to be made.

  The objective of this report is to present all the aspects related to the change and change management within the existing system of the organization and relating these aspects with the chosen company that is Apple. The other objective of this change management plan is to discuss the change plan elements, its rationale, to present a stakeholder analysis, and thus develop a feasible change plan within the organization.

The transformational and transitional change processes will be including the steps that includes raising the team member and submitting the Change Request Form to the change manager who will be handling the project. Evaluate the changes those have been requested for the transformation within the existing system of the organization. Updating the CR log relating the changes and the status of the change those have been updated throughout the CR process. Assessing the recommended the change working, solution, approval of the change request, or rejection of the proposed change that is not suitable.

The principle underlying the change management plan will be to provide suitable and better platform for the employees to lead the operational activities and targeted customer in more effective and efficient manner. 

There would be certain ethical issues in this change processes such as employees might not like new leader might not be appreciated by the employees or his or her order might not be listened by the employees.

Project Objectives

The main elements of the change management will be the internal stakeholder including the employees, and the heads as new head will be introduced and thus, the higher power and leadership will be transformed. This will also affect the skills and processes within the existing system of the organization as every leader has its own style to make the employees work towards the objectives and goals of the organization. He or she would might try to change some of the existing processes and try to implement or impose new processes, which are not acceptable to the old employees. The overall focus of the change management plan would be to ensure that the elements will be considered in positive manner and respective transformation will be implemented within the organizational structure. The skills will be enhanced if the new leader managed to learn about the specification and qualification of the individual employees and assign respective roles to them. These elements could affect the organization and skills of the employees in positive or negative manner as per the will of the leader.

The team of heads who are responsible of taking hard decisions related to the leadership and management will be playing the role of the driver as they are responsible for selecting the new leader and thus, his decisions and actions will be affecting the whole decisions and actions of the employees. Introducing new leader will have many objectives related to the development and enhancement of the organization however, the major constraint of this change will be enhance the overall performance of the organization. The constraint of the project after new leadership would lie under maintaining better communication, motivating employees, ensuring their respective place within the organization, describing he employees as the part of the organization and many more. The overall output of this change would help the organization in enhancing the individual performance of the employees and thus, in return will be helpful in enhancing the overall performance of the organization’s output and revenue. Motivating employees in either way will affect the organization’s performance on the basis of meeting the needs and requirements of the consumers and the financial output of the Apple.

The key stakeholders will be the employees of the organization, sponsors, business partners, executive managers and heads. This will also include the consumers, technology lover people, targeted customers, countries economy utilizing apple products and other consumers. This change management will affect all the identified stakeholders in positive manner and every stakeholder will have certain roles and responsibilities in this change. The primary concern for the heads and the executive managers would be that the new leader is capable of executing the needed requirements of the organization and will contribute in fulfilling the needs and requirements of the consumers and manage the other stakeholders in effective and efficient manner. The consumers will be consuming the products and services offered by Apple and the quality if the offered products and services will be according to the needs of the consumers, the change will find to be efficient and effective. Thus, the other stakeholders will similarly be affected by the proposed change and most responsible sector will be ‘employees’ as they will be forced to work under new leader without knowing the intention and activities of the new leader. It is important to have a better and effective communication between the stakeholders in manner to identify the needs and requirements of the stakeholders and fulfilling their need. The primary concern should be providing the innovative and new products or services to the consumers and provide them better services than it was earlier before the change implementation. The change should not be only imposed on the employees and staffs of the organization rather it should be made sure that the stakeholders who are being affected by the change is well known with the established and assumptions made about the change that is about to be implemented within the Apple. Arranging meeting with the employees and informing them about the effective change would be an effective way for the communication between them.

Change Objectives and Principles

There would not be a supportive expression from the executives of the Apple on changing the lead as most of the chef executives would want to take over the leadership and manage the operational activities in their way. This strategy will of high level in manner to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of the change and manage it properly within the context of the development of the organization. This is a framework that will help in making this implementation an effective and efficient change management within the existing structure and working system of the organization. The employees support will be primary factor for the successful implementation of the change and thus, their positive response will be helpful in managing the internal activities within the organization. The innovation and new services or products should be acceptable by the consumers should be according to the requirements and needs of the consumers and thus, should be loved and liked by them in manner to make it trending in the market. Strong senior employees might resist the new change implementation and thus, this resonance will affect the organization in negative manner.

For the complete implementation of the change management plan there needs to be the consideration of the messages that are to be forwarded to the higher authorities of the company. The following list can be considered to be the 6 key informative messages regarding the initiation of the change in the organisation:

• The key stakeholders of the company needs to assess the change management plan before it is executed in the company.
• The change management plan should be able to comply with the objectives of the company.
• The objectives of the company needs to be assessed for the determination of the proper method for the implementation of the change management plan for the company.
• The main concern regarding the execution of the change management plan of the company needs to be addressed in the change management plan.
• The changed should be able to bring a positive change in the company. Negative changes should be considered only if it can benefit the company in one way or the other.
• If there is loss in the process of implementation of the change management plan then there needs to be inclusion of the required details about the work in the system.

The above 6 key messages needs to be kept in mind during the implementation of the change management plan. The key elements needs to be implemented in the process of development of the change management plan. The elements needs to be assessed properly for the making of the change management plan.

The elements of the company can be described as the essential building blocks of the company. The collection and the proper working of the company are essential for the proper working of the company. The major elements where the change needs to be implemented in the company are as follows:

• Stakeholders: The stakeholders of the company can be said to be one of the primary financial element in the company. They hold a stake in the company for exchange for a sum of money to the company. The stakeholders may often tend to get hyper due to the rise in the working pressure of the company. This would result in the rise for the amount of money that needs to be invested into the company by them. It can be often beneficial for the company to change the number of stakeholders of their company. This would provide others to invest in the company and also have a rotational financial income for the company.
• Specialist: The working specialist group of the company should be worked in rotational work for the betterment of the company. They should be changed every five years in order to make the work better in the company. New faces in the company would work double the effort of the older employees which helps in the growth of the company.
• Leadership: Apart from all the works in the company, the management of the company can be considered to be one of the most important work for the completion of the work in the company. This causes the change in the form of leadership in the company. The change in the leadership can be beneficial for the company in the form of new innovative ideas and works for the company. Change in leadership has always been a welcome sign in the company. The democracy of a country works in the same way with the implementation of the change in the leadership form.
• Resources: The collection of different resources are the optimal working process for the progress of the company. Thus the use of fresh supply of resources for the company should be welcomed as a change in the company. If it is seen that the workers of the consolidated who provide the resources to the company are not providing the high grade products then it would be beneficial for the company to change their resource collection companies.

The above points cannot all be implemented at the same time. However it should be considered that there is a positive impact process and a negative impact process for the process in the company. Thus it needs to be considered before the implementation of the above processes before they are implemented into the company.

For the implementation of the change management plan with the help of the following process:

Change Plan Elements

Sl. No.   Action   Who      When    Performance Measures

1              Discussion           Manager, stakeholders                to understand the process to be changed

2              Development    Manager              After 1  to produce the work for the change process

3              Writing                 Manager, Writer              After 2  to write the plan for execution

4              Execution            Manager              After 3  to execute the work for the change management plan

5              Feedback            Manager              After 4  to collect the feedback for the from the managers and the employees

6              Revision               Manager              After 5  to revise the plan based on the feedback collected

7              Finalization         Manager              After 6  to finalize the change plan for the company

For the completion of the change management plan for the change there needs to the process of the completion of the policies and the execution of the plan in a proper manner. The policies and the performance of the project plan needs to be emphasised as per the change plan that has to be developed. The removal of the barriers regarding the change system in the organisation needs to be used for the execution of the plan. The correct process would be to use the system process of the objective set out for the project for the completion of the project. Reinforcement of the changes needs to be done so that the company would be able to evaluate the changes required for the betterment of the company.

The evaluation of the change plan process needs to be related to the achievement of the change management plan for the company. The planned objective of the company needs to be understood and then studied for the development of the change management plan. The discussion with the management and the stakeholders of the company needs to be done upon which the decision needs to be taken for the completion of the plan. The development would then be started based on the discussion completed for the plan. The change plan is written in a report form to be reviewed and executed in the company. After the step the plan can be executed in the company. The execution cannot be completed all at once. Step by step evaluation needs to be done on the project. The completion of the evaluation process would require time which can be used for the collection of the feedback based on the steps completed. Based on the feedback the plan needs to be revised and then the final execution needs to be executed. The plan of the process can then be executed as per the requirement of the objectives of the company

Rationale for the Change

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