Change Initiative in Green Mountain Resort

Change Initiative in Green Mountain Resort
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Change Initiative in Green Mountain Resort
Introduction
Change is never a straight forward process. If it were, then every business would be able to achieve its main objectives. Initiating minor changes requires ingenuity, discipline and a well thought plan. Changing a business in a major way therefore requires huge sacrifice and is ultimately a tremendous challenge. Change management can be put as a process where companies give support to their employees. Normally these employees are those that have been impacted by organizational change. Any person impacted or affected by the change should always be considered when the management of a business is developing a change management strategy. It can be correctly concluded that change management is a process whereby the human aspect of any business is focused on. Furthermore, change management can be put as initiatives applied to an organization to assist bring to reality the probability of success and investments returns (Peus, 2009). It warrants utilization of organizational tools to help employees come to terms with change. Change management initiatives are mainly focused at improving an organization’s effectiveness. This in turn, helps in ensuring the well being of the organization’s employees, customers and stakeholders. A company has to remain competitive in the tough business climate after all. Image concepts impact an organization according to the person who implements these images. Naturally image concepts show a manager how change should be managed. Furthermore it gives the manager an overview of their role as a manager of change. Image concepts affect the way an individual approaches change and how they also approach the outcomes that are perceived possible. Application Analysis Green mountain resort faces issues revolving around staffing issues and the complexities of turnover. The resort’s location is not ideal either as it is located in the poorest state. The positive thing however, is that the resort had a team of hardworking and dedicated employees. However, the resort had limited positions of promotions and this deterred the advancement of its employees. Consequently, the resort lost all its experienced employees who found work in more competitive businesses. This left the resort with few novice and workers whose input was less as compared to the previous employees. From here henceforth the resort was on a downhill trend. Issues dealing with staffing arose. The turnover rate was too high due to constant recruitment of new employees. This additionally required more funds to train the employees and thus crippled Green Mountain’s management. The first drastic step taken was to find a solution to the high turn over rate. The resort hired a consultant -who was not an expert in the industry- to help them fix the situation. Still, the consultant was able to guide the management fix the problem. What the management found was that the former employees spok...