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Resizing The Organization 31

Resizing The Organization 31. This book seeks to provide executives with useful insights, tools, guidelines, principles, and lessons learned about organizational transition and change. | Revitalization After Resizing 281 old behind. Consequently they are unsympathetic to others needs for holding on. Having let go of the past they are concerned with the future. Either because they are impatient to move on or because they refuse to consciously accept the pain of their own personal transition executives sometimes forget that a new beginning requires ending the old. Despite employees ongoing need to assess and cope with transition-related changes senior management comes to the point where it has had enough talk of divesting downsizing or closing and declares the transition is now over even as employees are in the midst of their adaptation to new personal and organizational realities. The Process of Adaptation individual adaptation to transition occurs through three phases letting go of the old dealing with the neutral zone and accepting the new Bridges 1991 . Throughout these phases every person and organization encounters forces for maintaining the status quo and forces for growth and change. These forces tend to operate counter to each other with a constantly shifting balance. Early on the maintenance forces predominate and are expressed in outright resistance to change or at best the absence of a will to act. Over time the growth forces tend to dominate and provide the necessary impetus for adaptation. in the letting-go phase the individual comes to terms with the reality that the old organizational order is ending or has ended and they must identify new perceptions and behaviors. Employees discover that some of their valued ways of coping are no longer successful. intellectually they recognize the need for improvements in work processes emotionally however they are frightened by the specter of change. Frequently the individual hopes to exert some control through politicking and positioning. Eventually however the person learns that conventional coping mechanisms do not succeed at fending off the forces for change nor does wishful thinking. The .