Managing Change For 24 Hour Fitness

By: Team C – Five Guys

MGT/426

October 31, 2013
Instructor Kathleen Kemmer

Managing Change For 24 Hour Fitness

Change is important in today’s world of business because it is fast-moving environment looking for a pace of change to slow more likely to be sorely disappointed. Without change, organizations would likely lose competitive edge and fail to meet the needs of what most optimism to be a growing base of loyal customers. In order for an organization to complete a successful change, organization need to able define a change and what specific change is necessary. The next step understands a cycle of change, and compare and contract of the two change agents. Finally is to select, which change agent is best suitable for the change that organization plan to complete. Frist define a change, it is something that presses people out of their comfort zone, it is inevitable, and it is better or for the worst, depending on where, and how people may view it. Change does have a necessary aspect of life and work. The world is changing more rapidly than ever. It is probable that people will have to cope with a variety of changes in the near future. The cycle of change begins when someone sees the challenge, and this challenge can be a threat to people within the organization, but it can also be an opportunity for growth and expansion. Either way, seeing the challenge awakens the need to change. There are three steps to the cycle of change and these steps are Unfreeze, Transition, and Refreezes (Akin, Dunford &, Palmer, 2006), and this will going to describe how the cycle of change works and the specific change that needs to occur within the cycle of change. Lewin’s change model is a good example as a cycle of change model for understanding the concepts of straightforward change