Transforming You in the Organization

Sometimes it makes me wonder what is easier, starting a new or changing something? But I think like for many other cases, starting a new will be easier. But would be easier to transform an existing organization into something you want it to happen? Like leading the company into a new direction, could be leaving some and changing some.

Transformation could either be difficult or easy depending on the current situation and for what purpose they are transforming. It could either transform its institution to something fit in their budget, like having crisis on financial stability, or the foreseeing of the growth of the organization.

On a negative note, there was a time when I encountered a little difficulty in the company, although the team is not directly affected, we felt that we might. There came a moment when there was crisis in the human resources, that I felt have in some way, created a silent conflict between people in the technical department from two different countries and the management was about to lose the people in one country. Later on, it did. A technical team from one region of the country slowly loses their interest in the organization and finally got dissolved later on. There came a time that I need not only get people from the locality I am a part of but in the locality that new technical group was created. It is now a division of people in two countries, apart from the fact that there are others in different regions of the country. The team not only comprised of regions from the Philippines but now also expands to other country. Although I have to admit that I am still trying to get better the policies between the scopes of both in the department. Transformation is difficult for me as I am still doing staff works or duties. But truthfully is, I have all the time to work on the transformation of the department but I always fail to do so. Maybe this part I need to work on too, the inner transformation.

When that crisis came, the management tried to save the different web applications the dissolved team handled. It was a sure difficulty for the management having to replaced the senior people with junior ones, who were then still on their learning stages. Seniors were pulled from other teams to help on juniors. Included in the dissolved team are also a number of QA’s that were slowly expressing disinterest in the organization. They were being passive and I can tell they already lose zest in their work. That is because the office was also dissolved in the region making them work in a special case in their homes online.

I can say that after that crisis we had, I think people are more open to transformation. But the feeling I had was that, is it just because they are afraid that they will lose their job if they go against the new management’s policies? Or are they just being passive-aggressive employees? I actually don’t know because truthfully, I am being cooperative with the management changes for the improvement of the company because of two reasons. First, I wanted to be involved. Secondly, I am a little concern I might not hold my position or I may lose my job if I go against the will.

I once heard someone in the past who shared about transformation in the organization he was working. He was a part of the management team and said that transforming an organization is actually an internal transformation. The transformation depends on the willingness of the people to accept the new goals and objectives of the company they are working. And this applies to me. I need to accept change but at the same time make sure that I am making a good move for my team.