Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence

Compare and Contrast Solutions and Alternatives

The implementation of the sustainable initiative in Verizon is a fundamental process to improve the competitiveness of the company in the industry. Also, impacts in asserting the market position of Verizon as a business leader and pioneer in technological and environmental initiatives. The solutions provided to enhance Verizon’s capacity to execute the sustainable initiatives include the creation of a dedicated green team, teaming up and partnering with green organizations, pioneering revolutions, and contributing directly to environmental conservations. This compares to simulation’s organization which focuses on involving and incorporating the workforce’s ideas into strategy and policy formulation. The capacity to successfully execute the strategies in the simulation focuses on the adoption of friendly policies that the employees can resonate with and encourage their actions to make their organization a pioneer in the industry.

The alternative implementation in the simulation followings a linear approach executed through an agile approach (Jaggars & Jones 2018). This allows the flexibility to adjust decisions along the implementation process to enhance the performance results and outcomes. The success of the simulation is based on making the most efficient and effective decisions. Considering Verizon’s proposed activities for education programs, environmental cautious initiatives, reduction of e-waste, and use of a 5G network to advance the impacts of technology – decisions are made to enhance the organization’s capacity to attain the set objectives of the sustainable initiative (Ahmad et al. 2013). Thus, in both the simulation and Verizon, the sustainable initiative impacts profoundly on the competitiveness of the company and asserts the capacity of the company to live up to its ethical and corporate responsibility.

Compare and Contrast Strategies

The simulation utilizes an agile strategic planning approach to ascertain in every stage the employees are engaged and involved as part of the change (Jaggars & Jones 2018). This is focused on having the employees own the changes. In turn, promise a prospective change adoption and implementation with minimal resistance, employee turnover, and being out of the loop of what is happening in the organization. Verizon utilizes the ‘humanbility’ approach which promotes the capacity for human beings to do more than they thought could actually manage (Verizon 2018). The approach creates an opportunity to develop and expand the human capacity as key agents of environmental conservation and protection. The capacity to build, nurture and perfect the human capacity impacts on the environment through the vast networks and community of Verizon across the globe taking measures that facilitate sustainable initiatives implementation (Azhar et al. 2013).

The strategies applied in both the simulation and Verizon are focused on having a strong, capacity, and effective workforce. Human beings are the primary target of ascertaining successful sustainable initiatives implementation across the world (Butow 2014). Through vast networks and technology, providing a solution to environmental matters is critical to creating a better world. Corporate responsibility dictates the need for environmental conservation and protection. This impacts in company’s efforts to adopt green initiatives to be streamlined in the operations and functionality endeavors (Brinkschröder 2014). Consequently, lead other companies and partners in meeting sustainable development goals for a better world and promise for future generations.

Compare and Contrast Leadership

The efforts to run a smooth sustainable initiative implementation process where minimal interruptions to business productivity are maintained, guarantees increased profits, as well as, benefits to the organization – leadership plays a significant role. The leadership provides the vision, a good environment for the employees to operate, direct the strategies implementation, and steer the process (Azevedo et al. 2018). Also, the workforce motivation and inspiration fall in the mandates of the leadership to ensure that they remain focused and committed to realizing the highest possible outcome. The leadership devices and maintains effective communication during the change implementation enabling the workforce to pursue the set objectives. Furthermore, building an organizational culture of creativity and innovativeness is integral to successfully implement the sustainable initiative in both the simulation and Verizon (Garza 2013).

Therefore, the leadership in Verizon focuses on employee morale, vision, communication, and effective management of the company resources to ensure the implementation process remains on course within the budget and stipulated time (Verizon 2017). The visionary leadership established by Verizon has positioned the company as a business and industry leader. This promotes the organization’s culture of adopting competitive initiatives and successfully seeing them through their implementation (Rajasekar 2014). As a result, Verizon maintains the provision of the best and most affordable services in its intention to make technology accessible to everyone. The spirit of esprit de corps that nurtures the feeling of pride and mutual loyalty between the employees and the workforce has been attained through effective leadership (Edwards 2018; Mbalamula et al. 2017; Uzuegbu & Nnadozie 2015). The capacity to direct and demand compliance of all suppliers and partners to Verizon’s CSR asserts the impact of effective leadership. Thus, leadership reverberates across all angels and corners of the sustainable initiative as pursued by Verizon.

On the other hand, the simulation provided an effective opportunity to exercise the effects of leadership in the implementation of initiatives by an organization. As the CEO of the company in which the simulation run, I focused on adopting policies that were friendly to the employees. This impacts reducing resistance to change rather create a sense of pride for being an initiative leader in the industry (Rajasekar 2014). The influence of the employees positively was attained through effective communication, the involvement of the employees, and recognizing the contributions they make to the organization. This proved to be integral to the changes applied by the organization. Thus, in both the simulation and Verizon’s functionalities – leadership is fundamental towards attaining the set objectives successfully.

Compare and Contrast Recommendations and Final Outcomes

The inventiveness to establish Verizon or the simulation company as a pioneer and business leader, the implementation of the sustainable initiative is integral towards the objective. On both accounts, the primary recommendations fall in the context of providing effective leadership that is visionary, focused, and committed to making their organizations the best. The capacity of effective leadership facilitates the change process through involving the workforce, valuing their feedback, and incorporating the insights into the strategies. This impacts raising the employees’ loyalty to the organization, feel motivated as valuable assets to the organization, and own the change itself. In turn, impact the ability to eliminate any resistance, employee turnover, and rebellion towards the change.

The adoption of key strategies provides a clear path towards making sustainable initiatives a success in the organization. It is highly recommended to adopt strategies that facilitate the implementation of the primary initiative to impact on high performance and target objective. For example, the pursuit of creating dedicated green teams, teaming up with green organizations, pioneering revolutions, and designating a percentage of the organization’s profits dedicated to being contributed directly to environmental conservationists is crucial to expanding the scope of the sustainable initiative. This impacts profoundly on the intensity of the success to which Verizon can achieve from the implementation of sustainable development initiatives. Thus, as an industry leader provides key lessons to successful initiatives implementation as drawn from Patagonia, Rekixx, and Eco-fi lessons (Bosco 2017; O’Rourke & Strand 2017; Petrie 2016).

The final outcomes of the simulation and Verizon’s sustainable initiative emphasize creating a more environmental workforce that is committed to making CSR principles a reality. The sustainable initiative is vital to increased competitiveness, brand identity, and reputation, as well as, loyalty in the market. The initiative induces the outcomes which assert Verizon’s market position as a business and industry leader that can provide lessons of best practices to other companies. The use of technology, especially with the development of 5G networks by Verizon, marks to establish and provide effective solutions to some of the dire global problems. The recording and analysis of patterns of weather changes and climatic conditions are bound to forecast accurately. The development of human capital is vital towards having expert individuals that can run and maintain sustainable initiatives for a better and competitive future. Thus, better preparations and investments to the right initiatives will impact the company profoundly in the efforts of making the world a better place.

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