Answer to Question #328742 in Management for Ashneel

Question

Assume that you are a consultant (you're a specialist in organizational cultural change) hired by Lu to assist World Food. Your job is to advise her on how to manage the changes with little negative impact as possible

1. Draw up a Lewin's force field analysis, identifying the driving and restraining forces relevant to the change event at World Food (2 marks)
2. Staff resistance is a symptom, not a problem, in the change process. Examine some of the main factors that a leading to staff resistance in this case (2 marks).
3. How did World Food manage staff stress in relation to the change event? Did it work? Why (or why not)? ( 2 marks)
4. Lu believed that the mindfulness at work training would enable her staff to deal with their feelings or stress towards the change event. This proved unsuccessful. Why? (2 marks)
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6. As a consultant, what action research approach would you apply in the change event? (2 marks)