HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY

Department of Nuclear Engineering

NEM 394 Engineering Project III

Assignment 5

Name: GÖKALP DİNÇAL

Student ID: 21952502

Date: 27.03.2022
 NEM394 - ENGINEERING PROJECT III
ASSIGNMENT 5

• Change management involves the process that ensures a business responds to the
environment which is operates. Changes could be in different ways like changes in laws,
changes in regulations, changes in technology, changes in economics etc.
• There are two types of changes. The first one is called ‘Incremental Change’. It occurs over a
period in time with small steps. You can’t see a big change in a short time but after all you
can observe a big change. You just can’t notice the difference because of the little stages.
The second type is called ‘Step Change’. Unlike the first one it occurs rapidly. You can
observe significant, radical changes in here. It’s not easy, it is too risky. Some of the biggest
business managers take ‘Step Change’ type for their business development. They believe that
the change was, is and will be the key of growth of their companies.
• After the types of change now we should talk about elements of change. There are four
elements of change. Change starts with dissatisfaction. It is the signal for something is going
wrong. Change aims to give new and different visions. It helps to bring new points of view.
Sometimes you need to develop strategies to develop your changing methods. Change needs
a change too. And, there will be always a resistance to change. Because change always has
some risks to take.
• Kurt Lewin has a model about force to changes. Basically, it shows us smallest to biggest
every change will bring their resistance forces with them. There will be always opposite
aspects. If there is an equilibrium, there will be no change. There can be many reasons to
resist changing. They can be about misunderstanding, stress or interests.
• People can want change because of the new opportunitions, boredom or for the new
challenges. Leadership has a huge role in change as we can predict. Strategic leadership is
vital if a business is to achieve strategic change. Shortly we can say, management is about
coping with difficuties and leadership is about coping with change. In management systems
everyone has a different role for changing. CEOs should bring new and fresh perspective,
functional management teams should bring new ideas and consultants should ask questions
and do cases.
• Helping people to accept change is not easy but it’s necessary. You can motivate them and
be flexible. You need to think like them and understand their fears. After that you will help
them.
• Changes can fail for many reasons. Poor communications, poor planning or poor preperation
can be the one of the reasons. Also we have failure examples in change management history.
Thanks to them we know what we shouldn’t do for changing.
• Risk management can be an important tool to eliminate potential problems in an
organization. We have several topics to understand about risks.
• First we will understand the definitions of risk and risk management. Risk is an uncertain
future event or condition which if happens affect the mission objective. It could have both
positive and negative effects. You can ask why we take risks then. Generally, more risks lead
to more rewards. In risk management, you identify the potential risks then you assess them,
so you know which of the identified risks are more critical and which are less. You can not
cover all risks since you have limited resources. With priority, you put your resources on high
priority risks.