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This 4-page paper answers questions concerning change management as they pertain to a case about Ajax Minerals. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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trends were on the horizon, not the least of which was that Pacific Rim companies would be able to mine and ship the same materials/minerals to the United States at
less of a cost than Ajax would pay to pull them from the ground. Adding to this problem was that Ajax had a somewhat shaky history as it pertained to
labor-management relationships. Calling the relationship mistrustful on both sides was somewhat downplaying the suspicion and anger that labor harbored for management. To its
credit, however, the current leadership at Ajax Minerals was well aware of labors suspicions and mistrust and decided to change things around by establishing interactive sessions involving both managers and
supervisors. Comment on the Ajax managers approach to the situation that they faced. Do you think that it will work long term? Managements
approach to the situation is what one would describe as "textbook perfect." In other words, they took the steps that many change management gurus suggest when it comes with dealing
with employees - both during the change and long after the change has occurred. The first step is to introduce the case for change (i.e., make the organization "change ready").
The second is to facilitate communication throughout the organization and provide access to necessary information to support the need for change. Lets go through these, one by one.
First, getting the organization into a change-readiness state. Most business academicians and scholars are fairly emphatic that the only way an organization is going to
weather change successfully is by becoming change-ready. Chen (2007), for example, points out that change, in and of itself, has little to do with "strategies, structures, cultures or systems," (p.
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