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This 10 page paper looks at the perception of change within an organisation from the perspective of a Dilbert cartoon and considers how to develop a recipe for successful change using these perceptions and organisational change principles. The paper develops an ABC approach with accompanying rules all based on acknowledged theory, using theorists such as Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert series as well as Lewin, Senge, Margerison and Smith, and Dervitsiotis. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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of the Dilbert cartoon that is drawn by Scott Adams. Here there is a scenario were bosses are treated with contempt and employees all have their own agenda and desire
to follow their own goals, By placing an organisation change into this scenario the negative aspects that can take place are much easier to conceive and accept than looking at
co-workers and employees, and foreseeing the potential resistance they may have. The Dilbert Principle states the general problem with change; "People hate change, and with good reason. Change makes
us stupider, relatively speaking. Change adds new knowledge to the universe: information we do not know. Our knowledge - as a percentage of all things that we know - goes
down a tick each time something changes (Adams, ;18). Looking at it in this perspective helps us to understand how change may be perceived, as making us
feel less secure and less knowledgeable, this is then extended to the way in which the change manager in seen as being as useful as an ice cream maker in
a winter blackout (Adams, 1996). The process of change is frightening, but looking more closely, often it is not the change itself that is the problem. Many changes occur
in organisational as organic changes gradually and naturally, if it were change that was the enemy there would be more problems here. Axelrod has the answer to this conundrum
with it is not the change that his the problem by "the very change management process they employed is the root cause of the problem" (Axelrod , 2001; 10).
Therefore, to look at change so that it can be successful in an ABC manner we need to consider how this can be achieved in an easy way, so
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