The Core of Organizational Change is in the Emotional Relations and Social Ties

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The Core of Organizational Change is in the Emotional Relations and Social Ties

The core of successful (organizational, social) change is embedded in the emotional relations among actors involved in the movement. The real change is the changes of the emotional relations or the structure of social ties among them.
Mapping the structure of social ties before the changes is a very important thing to do to understand at what certain factor(s) we need to work on to achieve the desired changes.

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		0 Kaiser Management Consultant, United States
	Structure of Social Ties Mr. Suhartono, I find your point of view very interesting. Can you provide an example of mapping the structure of social ties.

		0 Taurai Albert Mutasa Student (University), Zimbabwe
	Dyadic Mapping and Change This is incredible and of interest to me as an OD person, but what tools do we use to map Mr. Suhartono? Can you explain a bit or give an example?

		0 Elaine Young United Kingdom
	Mapping of Social Ties I'm very interested in this! Mr. Suhartono- can you provide examples of tools to use?

		10 Gary Wong Consultant, Canada
	Structure of Social Ties What comes to my mind is the emerging work being done in Social Network Analysis (SNA). If we view the typical organization hierarchy as being vertical, then networks give us a horizontal view. I recommend reading Seth Godin's book "Linchpin". In my consulting work, I stress this is not a vertical versus horizontal issue. Effective organizations need both. Vertical organization structures satisfies the need for governance ("the buck stops here") while networks describe how work gets done in an organization ('the buck flows here"). We can map these social ties by asking each person who they talk to daily, weekly, monthly. Beside work networks, we can also discover the information networks and social networks that really make up the org's culture. Another interesting mapping exercise is to collect stories as data points. By plotting them, you can produce a landscape. Then there is what Google+ ripples is offering. Fascinating stuff that's emerging!

		0 Kaiser Management Consultant, United States
	Dyadic and Social Mapping / Structure of Social Ties Thanks Gary. Love to know more about your work in this area.

		4 Dr Gary Jones, Australia
	Structure of Social Ties Good stuff Gary. You have touched on the the informal organization. This social network holds a large amount of power if harnessed. It can can provide a powerful management tool. Firstly the informal organization leader needs to be identified and through managerial skills direct his thinking towards the organisations goals. One important goal is to increase the willingness to change - as most people are resistant to change (why change it works fine!). Whether a transactional, transitional or transformational change, implementation is much easier if there is no or little resistance. One method I have used is to make the staff champions of change through communication, which of course is much easier if the informal leader is positive about the change. Change is a sub-set of strategic actions.