Develop and articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice
Michael Fullan(2001)'s framework of leading in a culture of change will be adopted at this week's activity. The framework is consisted of 5 elements which are moral purpose, understanding change, relationship, knowledge building and coherence making.
Moral purpose
In my working place, the academic library, it also emphasized users-oriented. Library would hold annual survey for asking users’ opinions of the library services. After collecting the data, it would change its services according users’ opinions. It also affected us to think based on our users. The concept had been changed from “We work for the organization” to “We work for our customers”.
Understanding change
The change is mentioned at activity 2 which is the trade of e-resources instead in-print materials. As the library had identified the trade, it decided a plan for it which mentioned at activity 2 in order to retain the users and provide new services.
Relationship, Knowledge building and Sharing
Our leader encouraged staffs to ask question and give opinions for their works. As I mentioned at activity 1, our department had a discussion broad for staffs giving comments and asking questions. It is beneficial for our team member building up a good relationship. Everyone could share their opinions to others. It could not only help strong their relationship, but also help build up their knowledge related to works. The reason is that they would ask questions, such as solutions to some difficulty, which could help knowledge exchanged.
Coherence making
As Fullan mentioned that “Effective leadership can guide staff through the differences and move the organization forward”, our leader also emphasized that. He not only encouraged staffs to give comment for him, but also to lead by personal example. For example, he was willing to show help when we were suffering in difficulty. Still, he also liked talking with us when we got problems. It is beneficial for coherence making.
For the moral purpose, you mention that your library will gather user opinions annually so that your library can adopt change according to the survey in order to work more user oriented.
ReplyDeleteIn my organization, we will also gather the opinions from our target groups at the end of every last lecture of the programme.
Their opinions are very important to us to adopt change in various area including the classroom facilities, the quality of the lecturer and the admin. staff, supporting services in learning cenres.
Our school will implement the changes according to the results of the survey.