Managing the Change Across Boundaries

 Managing the Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices

As a part of their day today responsibilities, some managers manage to across the departmental or geographical boundaries. To shoulder to this responsibilities they do researchers. These researchers focused upon the boundary spanners who are responsible wit making changes across the boundaries. These researchers also explore the boundary shaking practices in the context of appreciating the possibility of their emergence ad development.

In order to manage the boundary spanning activities, boundary spanners need to be outfitted with some skills, such as interpersonal, networking and influence, etc. to achieve the particular mandated power the above skills plays a vital role.

 Political nature also plays a vital role change agency according to the researchers. This is also an important point to boundary shakers. The nature of their work might fix with requirement of managing and influencing the politics across the boundaries. This could be more effective for the boundary spanners who enriched with the networking skills.

 Adjusting measurement system aligning agendas or selling, engaging in the stage of management, gathering intelligence and managing up are several boundary-shaking practices that are include in the research paper.

 Introducing new measurement systems to areas such as reward or objective or changing the existing measurement system are involved in adjusting measurement system. Apart from that individuals are encouraged to involve in the change initiative. 

Another boundary-shaking practice that is discussed in the research paper is aligning agendas/selling. This practice is given through communicating and getting the support of the individuals to the change initiatives.  This could be done by formal and informal communication methods.

Engaging in stage management involves in manipulating situations accordingly conveying the change initiative effectively. For this process there are many well used methodologies, such as setting up meetings, discussion in a proper way. Also this could be helpful to identify the differences of individuals. Through that they can be bring together for the change process.

Gathering intelligence and managing up are the final practices include in the research paper. Gathering intelligence practice is followed by finding agendas or issues of the others (juniors and seniors) and feed them into the change management process. Through that change process is more flexible to overcome those issues as well as the potential threats. 

Getting the help from the senior management to implement the change is the most valuable practice involved in managing up. Through the above boundary-shaking practices the most suitable changes could be done in the management.

 

List of References

 Balogun, J., Gleadle, P., Hailey, V,H., Willmott, H, 2005. Managing Change Across boundaries: Boundary –Shaking Practice, vol 16, pp. 261-278