Question

Suppose you are a senior manager of a multinational company. The organizations growth should be maintained at its best. The prevailing situation of the country (COVID 19) could have a significant impact on your organization.
Describe your role as a change agent to make necessary changes to your workplace environment while maintaining the profitability / Sustainability. (800 words)

Answer 1

Assuming that I am a senior manager of a multinational company and in the prevailing situation of the country (COVID 19) that could have a significant impact on my organization I will play the role of change agent to while maintaining the profitability / Sustainability in the following manner:

· Reassess priorities and what adds value to business.

· Ensure that my employees are safe; ensure work from home for all the employees that can manage work from home.

· Ensuring that WHO guidelines are followed to safeguard healthy and happy workplace.

· Immediately bring new guidelines into effect to ensure that traditional system is changed to agile structure.

· Arranging online training sessions for employees to make it easy for them to understand new protocol, need for change and manner of adapting it.

· Structuring: Act as a role model and display that this big change cannot impact productivity.

· Driving cultural transformation successful by ensuring that managers are always available to assist subordinates.

· Maintain productivity by monitoring deliverables on daily basis.

· Ensuring openness in the system.

· Recognizing: By rewarding employees for their support and hard work in these challenging times will motivate them to keep themselves productive.

All the above measures will ensure that necessary changes are made at workplace environment while maintaining the profitability / Sustainability.