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FP Group are going to introduce SAP into their purchasing department, this will mean fewer jobs. This 3 page paper looks at the management advice that ma be given to a manager who is implementing the change. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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management introducing the change. In implementing SAP Michele Hope has to deal with both of these issues. The project needs to be completed within a year and the internal customers
need to be satisfied. The internal customers are other employees inside the firm that use the department to supply some services to them, this is likely to be all of
the other departments which include the 19 subsidiaries and the 119 branches, it is the employees in them who are the internal customers, who need the supplies, which include the
right supplies at the right time at the correct price. The first consideration is how to introduce the change; a Model such as
Lewins model will be useful as a starting point. Lewin describes way in which change materialises as the effect of driving and restraining forces (Lewin, 1951). The position of an
organisation, in this model, is always under some form of pressure to change. The ways in which any changes emerge are as a result of these restraining and driving pressures
(Lewin, 1951). Driving forces can be external to the organisation, for example changes in legislation, environment changes or the industry structure, they may also be internal such as staffing matters
or micro economic factors. Driving factors are highly likely to be financial in origin, such as the need to improve profits or cut costs. Driving forces will be concerned with
improving the organisation. The influences which prevent change are the restraining factors. These tend to be more personal; the resistance to change and factors which seek to keep the
status quo which may include fear for the loss of a job, or the resistance to a new system. For example, when change is proposed there is often fear
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