HR costs (2 types),”Employee health care costs: the biggest health care costs for companies are obesity, smoking, and federal health care. Some organizations are providing opportunities for employees to lead healthy life styles, to limit rising health care costs. Pension plan costs: on the one hand, organizations want to attract talented, capable employees by offering them desirable benefits such as pensions. But on the other hand

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Organizational change and 3 ways,”any alternation of an organization’s people, structure or technology.Changes can occur in different ways:Changing structure. Any change in authority relationships, coordination mechanisms, degree of centralization, job design or similar organization structure variables. Example: restructuring work units, empowering employees, decentralizing.o Changing technology Modifications in the way work is done or the methods and equipment used. Example: computerizing work processes and procedures, adding robots, mobile communication tools.o Changing people Changes in employee attitudes, expectations

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Change agents,”people who act as change catalysts and assume the responsibility for managing the change process. o Any manager. We assume that organizational change is initiated and carried out by a manager within the organization.o Non-manager For example an internal staff specialist or an outside consultant whose expertise is in change implementation.outside consultants may not understand the history, culture, operating procedures, personnel of company

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change happen? 2 metaphors:,”‘Calm Waters’ metaphor is a description of organizational change that likens that change to a large ship making a predictable trip across a calm sea and experiencing an occasional storm. According to Lewin’s three-step-process, successful change requires unfreezing the status quo, changing to a new state, and freezing the new change to make it permanent. The status quo can be the equilibrium state. Unfreezing can be removed by:- Increasing the driving forces which direct behaviour away from the status quo- Decrease the restraining forces, which hinder movement from the existing equilibrium- Do bothIt should be freezed to sustain over time. In this process

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Organizational development techniques (4),”1. Survey feedback. Employees are asked their attitudes about and perceptions of the change they’re encountering.2. Process consultation. Outside consultants help managers perceive, understand and act on organizational processes they’re facing.3. Team-building. OD helps become a team, by helping to set goals, develop positive interpersonal relationships and clarify the roles and responsibilities of each team member.4. Intergroup development. Different groups focus on becoming more cohensive.Attempts to change attitudes

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