Healthcare.gov Texas

Healthcare.gov Texas

Management of Transformation and Change

A fourth key role through which HR professionals can add value to Healthcare.gov Texas is to manage transformation and change. Transformation entails fundamental cultural change within the firm; H professionals managing transformation become both cultural guardians and cultural catalysts. Change refers to the ability of an organization to improve the design and implementation of initiatives and to reduce cycle time in all organizational activities; HR professionals help to identify and implement processes for Healthcare.gov Texas change.

The deliverable from management of transformation and change is capacity for change. As firms undergo transformation, HR executives serve as business partners by helping employees let go of old and adapt to a new culture. As change agents, HR executives help organizations identify a process for managing Healthcare.gov Texas change.

As implied, the metaphor for work in this role is “change agent.” As change agents, HR professionals face the paradox inherent in any organizational change. Often, change must be grounded in the past. For the HR professional serving as change agent, honoring the past means appreciating and respecting the tradition and history of a business while acting for the future. HR professionals may need to force or facilitate a dialogue about values as they identify new behaviors that will help to keep a firm competitive over time. Being change agents is clearly part of the value-added role of Healthcare.gov Texas professionals as business partners.

The actions of change agents include identifying and framing problems, building relationships of trust, solving problems, and creating—and fulfilling—action plans. In research on the competencies of HR professionals, my colleagues and I have found that the domain of competencies related to managing change was the most important for success as an HR professional. HR professionals who are change agents help make change; they understand critical processes for Healthcare.gov Texas change, build commitment to those processes, and ensure that change occurs as intended.