Introduction to Change Scenerio

Olusanya Oyeyemi

Walden University

MMSL 6661

Dr. Evan Duff

01 November 2015

Abstract

For any organization to measure up to the millennium standard, it must implement frequent development changes which must be discovered by someone and implemented after unanimous agreement by leaders. This paper shows the change I have nursed in my organization for years and its pros and cons for both the organization and the employees.

I have served four years plus in the military and within those years my observation for significant change was that  graduate employees both as enlisted and officers were not employed into a relevant discipline to their degree. It is very common to see a historian or an economics by profession heading engineering division where technical skill is necessary. Even though the officers might be more of management but even the enlisted are not considered for their previous college degree which might be of assistance and consistency in their career.

The problem encounter was that most of these people have to start studying new career from scratch, in many cases, the career that have nothing to do with their initial degree. Therefore, military have to start training them from the beginning, in most cases they are not interested or passionate about the newly enforced career but because they don’t want to lose their job they will just follow the order. That is, they cooperate without commitment. For instance, I studied electrical/ electronics engineering in college and was employed into the military as enlisted, even with my four years of experience in electrical design in oil and gas, the military still changes my career into engineman, maintaining and repairing auxiliary equipment.   Even though I was employed within engineering yet, I was not allowed to work on any electrical fault on wiring or troubleshooting. Many officers or enlisted were employed into a totally different profession.

As a leader in the position of making or suggesting changes, from recruiting station, I will introduce or suggest that personnel should wait for relevant vacant to their initial profession or background are available before going to boot camp or commission. This idea will aid both officers and enlisted who have a degree to cope fast, remain on course in their career development and work within their interest.

The risk is that to make a change it must go beyond my command to training and recruiting centres of the military, which means the whole body of the military has to come to an agreement to effect the change that is a long process. The benefit is that it will reduce the time and money spends on training while the risk is that some degree holder may still need to train and retrains to do their job.

Organization Chart on my Command: