ABSTRACT
The issue of change has always been a recurring one in organization.
Management has always had problems in initiating change in organizations
because employees prefer to stick to the old method of doing things. This
project took a look at five firms to examine how change can be managed in
these organizations while also getting the employee involved in the change
process.
In achieving this objective, a number of research tools were employed
such as the questionnaire, oral interviews etc. In the course of this study, the
researcher discovered that though employees would most times resist change,
that there were processes to be taken in order to reduce this resistance to change,
one of which was to ensure employee involvement in the change process. It
was conclusively deduced that managing change is a dynamic process which
requires being constantly tuned in to what is happening around and monitoring
the process carefully. This study recommended that for effective change process
in organizations, top management must be committed to the change process;
and most importantly the parties that would be affected by the change must be
involved in the change process thus resistance to change will be reduced. It is
the belief of the researcher that this study will become a reference tool for
managing change in organizations.
