Navigating Change: Overcoming Management Challenges at Pinyin Foods/VMI

Name: Institutional Affiliations: Date: Week 7: Evaluation Analysis (Outline) Management Challenges at Pinyin Foods/ VMI Poor communication skills: The management has expressed great inabilities in communicating the benefits and challenges that change may bring to VMI workers causing mixed feelings towards the change amongst workers Conflicts: The management is unable to manage internal conflicts that the VMI and Pinyin food workers have expressed in a span of six months of experimenting new technology at VMI. The management has not expressed any interest in understanding why the two groups are not getting alone well Strong resistance: Strong resistance to change proves a major problem that the case scenario associates with the management inability to effectively prepare VMI workers about the new change prior to its introduction in the organization. Inability to manage internal politics: Based on the case study, the management has not expressed any abilities in managing the spreading rumors concerning the anticipated impact of change. VMI workers among the society that depends on VMI meat products are spreading rumors that express fears of embracing change at VMI with regard to quality of VMI product, workers job security and abandoning the southern cultures. Tools and Skills to Manage Managerial Challenges at VMI Employment of effective communication skills: Such skills will enable the management to effectively communicate to the resisting workers on the benefits that the change might bring to them and the organization in general. Strategic thinking and active listening: To manage the noted conflicts amongst VMI and Pinyin worke