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Embracing Change: Collaborative Management Strategies

The document discusses how managers must encourage worker participation in goal setting and involve workers in planning business strategies to better manage change. It also outlines a three-step process collaborative managers should use to change strategies in response to the dynamic external environment: environmental scanning, interpreting factors, and acting on threats and opportunities.

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Embracing Change: Collaborative Management Strategies

The document discusses how managers must encourage worker participation in goal setting and involve workers in planning business strategies to better manage change. It also outlines a three-step process collaborative managers should use to change strategies in response to the dynamic external environment: environmental scanning, interpreting factors, and acting on threats and opportunities.

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Changing is essential.

This is perfectly encapsulated in the words of theorists Charles Darwin, “It is not
the strongest who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

In today’s business context, managers are required to encourage workers participation in goal setting so
as to provide a more diverse and thorough discussion of issues affecting their business performance. ( )
In this way, managers will have more source of information needed for development of business
strategies.

Collaborative managers insure that each and every worker is involved in the planning phase of business
strategies so as to allow the workers have the sense of accomplishment and responsibility in obtaining
the goals set by them. In this way, each workers will be able to self-actualized in accordance with
Maslow’s Hierarch of Needs . ( )

Also, as collaborative managers, they must employ a three- step process of changing their business
strategies in relation to the dynamic, confusing and complex external environment. The steps are:

(1) Environmental scanning – this happens when managers gather as much as information
about political, economic, legal, technology, environmental, legal, and social factors of their business
industry

(2) Interpreting environmental factors - different management and marketing theories must be
used to interpret the data and subsequently create action plan to address the effect of these factors

(3) Acting on threats and opportunities – this is the p

Alongside, management practices in the employment and operation of businessTraditional managers


according to the study of _______ is no longer effective nowadays as it delays the progress of
production and completion of projects due to the inherent red tape system. Hence traditional managers
must become collaborative managers.

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