This feeling of loss is naturally followed by the grieving process. Losses do not even need to come to fruition in organisational change to cause emotional distress for employees – the mere thought of the chance that it might happen can create profound anxiety. They experience the effect of the change in different ways, depending on their individual interpretation. Morten, from the same company, on the other hand, feels like the Career Framework makes him lose control over his career path. When a new Career Framework is implemented she experienced a loss of status because it makes her seniority less clear. It is important to remember that individuals experience loss in different ways.Ĭonsider this example: Karin has been working for Company X for 20 years. This includes loss of control, social status and self-worth. There are tangible losses, such as loss of income if a person is demoted, or the fear of losing your job. That is why forced changes are often emotional experiences. This even applies to positive changes because you still must release your grasp on old, familiar routines. Have you ever been surprised by employees’ reactions to even small organisational changes?įorced change is intimidating and disturbing for people because work is central to most peoples’ lives and identities. Why organisational changes are a loss to employees That is what some organisational changes are to employees: a grief process. Instead, it is vital that you understand the human dynamics of changes to better support your employees through the process of grief. While this might be the easiest thing to do, it does not deal with the root cause and the real issues.

The default reaction is to blame employees for being resistant. And often there will be resistance to the changes. Complex, emotionally challenging changes have little chance of success, unless the severity of loss is acknowledged and grief is redeemed.Īs you probably have realised, it is inevitable that changes in your organisation will happen. While giraffe may not drown in the quicksand, giraffe may die of hunger later on however.ĭo you like what you have read, if yes, subscribe to my blog through RSS.To succeed with changes, you must be ready to deal with issues such as loss and emotional grief. As giraffe goes through all the stages, giraffe wasted precious time to save itself. The giraffe should have move so very slowly and bite on the grass by the quicksand bank to pull itself up. Complaining will only makes everything even worse. joking.īasically, we must never ever give up on things till we try very hard to mend it. The moral of the story - avoid quicksand. it's better to accept than to go rampaging about it. And everyone gets their own slurpy machines. I bet heaven has all the tender leaves I can eat. Giraffe : You know something, I'm cool with this. whaaaaa haaaa haaaaaa haaa haaa! Urghhhhhhhh urghhhhhh urghhhhhh. Giraffe : Urghhhhhhhhu rghhhhhhu rghhhhhh. We sympathize our self and that usually makes us feel better. Sometimes we may feel so much better after letting it out.

When nothing happens, the next best thing is to cry out loud. after much cursing and blaming on about everything else, you think GOD will sympathize. Erhh.hh.hh.We've got a deal ?ĭownright pathetic. no more peeing on your shoulder's creature. if you would just give me a hooligan on this quicksand thing, I promised. Maybe GOD will sympathize and help us out as we keep our fingers crossed.

(Don't you love this part.haha).Ĭooling down a little, we find that being angry doesn't help one bit. Mother Mother Mother Arghh! That stupid jungle. but literally they appears at the wrong time in the wrong place. We blames everyone - whoever that crossed our path will be a victim of our shouting, blaming, swearing and cursing. Aren't you sinking, giraffe?Īs things remain unchanged, we go through stage 2 - Anger. I'm gonna have a good laugh about this with another guy. We deny that the problem actually happens. When things didn't turn out the way it should, we may go through Stage 1 - Denial. While not everyone is like that, human generally tends to compromise on what they have in their life. I find the character giraffe is similar to a human behavior.

Girrafe in quicksand