Managing Change in a Global Organization

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This paper examines the subject of globalization in the business world. It examines the necessity for it, the opportunities such a decision affords, employee resistance that can occur and the importance of top management involvement.

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"Because of the rising level of competition, businesses are expanding globally in order to generate additional demand for their products and services. In addition to creating extra opportunities for growth through access to a wider market, global expansion also facilitates access to low cost operations. For example, manufacturing costs in China are the lowest to be found anywhere in the world with advanced infrastructural facilities. As a result, businesses in the West have been moving their operations to China by setting up manufacturing facilities there. Businesses with services offerings or those involved in the development of information technologies are increasingly turning to India for the availability of low-cost manpower in these areas. As a result of these trends, more and more businesses are going global in a variety of ways. Some businesses are expanding simply to the extent of setting up marketing and sales offices globally. Others are setting up manufacturing operations globally. Others are offering franchises. However globalizing operations efficiently and effectively is a highly challenging task in managing change. And this is an ongoing process since after operations have been shaped up to address global issues, the issues of managing change remain in the form of the need for rightsizing emerging periodically in response to the changing business environment. In managing these changes, I would select the evolutionary model for change"

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