The differences between stated change goals and current change status highlight the ultimate goal that change management provides. The engagement of the employees and the encouragement adopted by stakeholders and management helps change the behavior and workflow of Northrop Grumman. Depending on the situation, Northrop Grumman believes …show more content…
Northrop Grumman also believes that initiatives must be connected with their core values. It is important to understand that the whole system which involves the entire organization must be responsible in the support of the change transition.
Organizations and businesses often initiate change for various reasons: to reach a broader market, change the internal structure of employees and taking the business brand in a new direction on the market. When an organization initiates changes, executives and managers must work to maintain the customer’s vision of the company as sales may drop if customers start questioning the company’s credibility or its motivation for change (Jane, 2015).
Additionally, Northrop Grumman believes that incremental improvement cannot be mistaken for transformation. Northrop Grumman’s goal is not to be blind in believing that although certain goals are being reached, there is a slippery slope when considering strategic change. It is equally understood that the pace of change is very important to identify the obstacles within the change initiatives. Northrop Grumman believes that following goals are key to maintaining their goals for …show more content…
Maintain Persistence - Develop a plan of action and milestone (POA&M) to ensure change in meeting deadlines.
Current Change Status
Organizational change occurs when a company changes from current state to some desired future state. These changes must be done in a way to minimize resistance from the employees (Unknown, 2015). One part of that change is finding the difference between the stated goal changes and the current status. This will determine how far along in the change process a company is. The current status for Northrop is that they are still very far from the change of taking the employees opinion into consideration when making major decisions.
The company has not initiated any movement towards this new change yet. It would be a nice to have change since employee input can be very valuable. Unfortunately as of this writing, Northrop still does not see the true value of using employee knowledge. Hopefully someday, they will understand how the value of inside employee information could be the difference between winning a government contract or just missing it because of information the executives did not know. They should not be too proud to listen to the regular employee on the shop floor that has everyday hands on experience of the