Lack of employee involvement, lack of effective communication strategy, and unknown current state are all barriers. how can each barrier cause the change management to fail?

 

Lack of employee involvement: The management's failure to involve the employee in the change process may lead to change management failure. This is because the employees will feel not appreciated by the organization. This will result in employees to think that the management has brought the change to minimize their freedom and rights. The employee who feels unappreciated will not feel motivated when managing the change and may result in the change's failure.

Lack of effective communication strategy: Effective communication plays a significant role in change management. It helps the employees to psychologically prepared in advance for the change. Lack of effective communication of the change process will trigger the employee emotions such as anger. This will result in the employee becoming hostile to the change process. They may boycott to participate in the change process due to the inadequate information of the intended change that the management wants to implement.

Unknown current state: The fear of the unknown by the employees, such as the security of their job, is a factor that may result in employees boycotting the change process. They fear the future uncertainty that the change implemented may bring. They fear that the change process will negatively affect them, such as salary reduction. The fear of an unknown current state will result in the employees rejecting the change, implementation, or participate in the change process for the sake of the security of their job but not willingly.