Develop and articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice
This week I will try to apply the Fullan (2001) model in an academic library which I am working in.
Moral Purpose
Our library senior management have a kind of concept that want our organisation can become more customer oriented and can keep on improve our service provided. This concept has actually influenced the others and I think it make our staff more actively think on what they can improve when they work. This 'customer oriented' culture not like our organisation vision but it really keep on driven our staff towards one goal.
Understanding Change
As the material has a trend to move on from physicl material to electronic version, our library usage has keep up decrease in some area. Most of our staff can realize we definity need to change and attract more clients.
Relationship Building, Knowledge Creation and Sharing
As I had mention in Week one, our library has a program named Staff Awareness Program". This porgram will let our staff which is coming from different session, working level and specialist to share different topics. It is a good platform to let us know each other like what they are doing, what problem they are facing, how difficult their work is, etc. It is a very good chance to build up our relationship as well.
Coherence Making
In my working place, senior management always focus on staff outcome, attritute and not focus on their grading. I amd very appreciate this working atmosphere cause it is very effective on motivate us to keep on improve our work and ability.
For coherence making, I totally agree with Martin that senior manager should focus on the staff outcome instead of their grading.
ReplyDeleteIn my organization, the head of the school welcome the support staff to share our opinions during the meeting. In his view, he think that the support staff are the right person to share opinions since we are the people who always keep contact with the target group.
Therefore, our opinions are worth for the school to take advise.
In addition, it can surely motivate the staff to work independently.
Thanks for your sharing Martin! I am interested in the program you mentioned which named Staff Awareness Program. In my opinion, it is a good platform for staffs learning. It allows vision delivery and learning the common problem. Can you give me some examples about what problems are librarian facing now? Is there are any common treat and common opportunity?
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest problem libraries are facing is our student spend time on Google and Facebook more than library. We have to change from a information provider to a services provider. That's why we keep on upgrading ourselves to catch up the environment changes.
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