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The Impact by Covid-19 to Change Management in Organizations
The corona virus has been causing challenges and major impacts to small and large scale organizations around the world. Business leaders are patiently waiting for their business to be operate as great as the good old days where profit and sales were in top benchmark, due to this pandemic everything change, from the operations to sale of good and services to society, specially this pandemic has become a great impact for people lives also. It is very much crucial to introduced new strategies and systems to the businesses in order to survive during a pandemic. Adapting to current and future challenges are the way to survive in the market. Seize opportunities and increase the business performance and sales are the key points of success. Change management describe as discipline that includes tools, processes, and new versions of techniques and technology that will guide how to prepare, equip and support personals to successfully to adopt for a change to drive and control the organization to success. Change management was initiate with the pandemic situation started where organizations have change their operations, management styles, safety and behavior of the organizational culture and their employees. “Change management is the systematic approach and application of knowledge, tools and resources to deal with change. It involve defining and adopting corporate strategies, structures, procedures and technologies to handle changes in external conditions and the business environment” – (Gartner, 2018) Companies are majority focus on the points after business location change, structure of finance in current and future financial periods, new technology implementations. The change of company structure will tend to change the behavior and skills of individuals who are working under that organization. Change management is initiate by the leaders in organizations. Leaders are the key holders for organization success and there are different aspects of change management. 1)	Employee perception – This basically understand how the behavior change on an employee effect on company’s’ change management. Coaching, training, upscale the skill set will effect directly the work behavior of an employee and it helps the person to change. 2)	Organization perception – This basically understand how company processes comply with management change, organization structure change, project changes, new technology implementation, embrace new strategies, positive impact on production and process, organization change can affect the whole society change where the customers are adapting to the new change of the company. In this pandemic situation, most of organizations faced many difficulties while the changes and they have been met with these challenges accordingly when the business started to change, with the operation changes in organization, resistance work were against that change since most of employees are only adapt to the normal old process which they have been used and not wanting to change the way of working under operations. Following are some driven forces and restraining forces for an organization under the analysis of force field analysis for post Covid-19 pandemic. -Driven Forces 1. Cost Cutting – Most of the companies has taken a decision to change the operation manual where the management can reduce the cost for operation process. One of those cost cutting solution are Companies are tend to import raw material from overseas where the companies has to bare higher shipping and airline charges, best solution to reduce the operation cost to make use of home country raw materials and stop importing from overseas, make maximum use of existing machines and drives rather than investing on new machinery is one way to reduce the operation cost. 2. Staff cut down – Most of the organizations are finding difficult to adjust financially due to the reduction of sales figures and decrease of profitability, this also reflects in cost cutting solutions, organizations are tend to hold providing incentives, bonus and increments where they managed to survive the financial loss. So the companies are mainly focused stable the business strategies with the existing resources. 3. Increased Competition – Since limited products in the market due to Covid-19 pandemic, most of companies are producing the same products and trying to meet customer requirement and customer satisfaction, as an example mask production companies in large scale are competitive with same players in the market since the masks production has been one of key product in the market due to Covid-19 4. Global Economy – Countries are currently facing many financial and economic crisis at this time with the pandemic situation as well those are directly impact on the global economy. Most of the countries are stopped interfering with other countries on behalf of operations and transportation of goods. -Restraining Forces 1. Fear of role change – Employees and management are basically in situation where they have to adopt for new systems and new operations due to Covid-19 pandemic, majority of workforce in a business is basically are not having the eager to adapt for the new change with the new workplace and new technology so they tend to have this fear of change overtime, they are more conscious to stay with the old process and old technology operations. 2. Environmental Impact – One of the major impact to an organization where the companies having great benefits from environment to the business, due to the current pandemic environment has been not supportive to businesses. Covid-19 does not have direct impact on the environment, however, socially it has been effected to people and their day to day living lifestyle. 3. Downfall of the world economy – Many emerging and developing economies of different countries were already experiencing weaker growth before the crisis and Covid-19 now makes the challenges these economies even harder. Due to the low GDP level in all countries the world economy became drastically steep down in and it has been affected long term damage to potential outpost and productivity growth. 4. Fear – The most common emotion currently going through every human, where the same will be a major impact of every human life, due to the Covid-19 most of the employees and management are in mixed emotion and fear is one of the main thing, where the fear of unsuccessful change management in the company is one of them.

Role and Benefits of Negotiation in Change Management
Due to this pandemic situation organizations need to change some of their operations, management styles, employee behavior and the organizational culture. In order to make a successful change to the organization, management of the organization should have a better understanding about why they need to change? What they need to change and how are they going to change things. Basically, it is important to understand about the change management concept. “Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed – the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.” - (Hesselbein, 2018) With the change of the world situation, organizations are much needed to change accordingly. So, in order to do that the organizations should keep following steps. It is important to create an urgency feeling between the employees about the changes that need to be done. Especially the organization should pre plan what they are going to change about the organization. With this special scenario should follow the government rules and regulations while the healthy steps are taken into consideration. It will be fair enough to have a discussion among the employees about the organizational culture differences. How they should come to the office, working from home ethics, about the production and manufacturing in the future. Once the employees understand about the need of the change and the urgency of the change, there should be a proper management and leadership skills that need to drive the employees through the correct path. Leadership of the organization should have a proper plan what they are going to take as the safety steps behalf of the organization and how to build up the trust between the employees. For that the leaders should have critical, creative and expert knowledge on the change management. Even though, still there can be barriers for the organization to change. But they should be identified properly and they should be handled in a proper method. Especially the following reasons can be impact on the change management of the organization. •	Organization is having a formal background and employees are not willing to change. •	Lack of technology •	Lack of skills among the employees •	Management is not willing to change from the current practices. •	Lack of leadership qualities from the management •	Afraid to take new steps and plans But change management is important for and organization since the whole world is facing to a high pandemic and uncertain situation. The top management of the organization should have an implementing method in order to overcome the barriers. For any transformation, it is crucial to focus on delivering best strategies and tactical plans although mainly should focus on intimate understanding of the employee side of change management, therefore company’s’ culture, values, ethics and behavioral will be recognized in the society. At the same time organization should sustain the changes and they should monitor the changes work well. This way companies can stay and grow in the market even there’s a pandemic situation.