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Organizational Change Management Undergoing Changes Thesis
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Subject:Business
Topic:Organizational Change
Document Type:Thesis
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As described, the image of the change manager as navigator is reflected of Fiorina because she focused on the people, because the success of the merger and the operations after the merger is dependent on whether or not personnel have "a history of distrust, hoarding of information, and boundary protection by functional units" (27). Hurd, meanwhile, is the change manager as director, since like Fiorina, he just responded to what he perceived was the company's direction after the merger, wherein he focused more on operations and implementing work efficiency to make the company profitable, than centering his attention to human resource. His success in using this strategy is reflected in the company's highest growth in seven (7) years; however, it is worth noting that Fiorina's and Hurd's efforts as CEOs to HP is complementary rather than contradictory to each other. Each CEO contributed to the company in his or her own way. Fiorina's strength was to make change acceptable through HR management, while Hurd considered change as a move towards efficiency rather than…
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