How to cope with changes?

Abstract

The only constant thing that happens to every one of us is change. We face several changes in our personal life and work life. One of the biggest pre-occupations of management all over the world is making changes in organizations. Organizations identify new practices and methods of doing work, so they want to implement these changes. Employees are asked to learn new methods and do things differently. Sometimes the way the management chooses to measure the performance of employees undergoes changes. There are many more examples of changes. The reporting relationship of employees are changed, the recruitment and promotion policy changes, the products and services offered also change. The list is indeed endless. In a vast majority of these situations, the basic premise for making changes is to improve the state of affairs and make things much better for everyone including the employees, supervisors, managers and customers. Despite this our track record in implementing changes as well as coping with them is lack lusture..........