1. INTRODUCTION
In today’s world, organizations face unprecedented challenges and changes. There is a worldwide competition for resources, talents, products, services and market, and it is caused by globalization. Technology advancement eliminates the barriers of time, and also accelerates the pace of change. And the ageing workforce and impending shortage of key skills are creating a global talent crisis that is expected to last for decades. All these prevailing forces are the external forces that are causing many organizations to change the way they operate as they identify the performance gaps.
This report will look into the changes that take place in an organization and the force resisting organization change with techniques in which organizations can implement to reduce these forces. Also, the role of HR in OD will be discussed, and how HR and OD can work together. Recommendations that can help organizations in the long run will also be included.
2. The devolution of HR to the line: Implications for perceptions of people management effectiveness
Elissa L. Perry and Carol T. Kulik
OVERVIEW
This article discuss on the topic of devolution from human resource manager to line manager as a growing and global trend. And the purpose of the research is to examine the effect of devolution on effective people management. Organizations face a number of challenges when implementing a change programme. Nevertheless, the main challenge faced would revolve around people as change causes the status quo to alter and causing resistance from people towards the change in the organization.
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
Some of the restraining forces are mentioned in the article, and the main restraining forces (Brown & Harvey ...