Mgt 521 Lewin's Change Model

Lewin’s Three Stage ModelName:Institutional affiliation:Lewin’s Three Stage ModelIn 1947, a scholar Kurt Lewin developed the Lewin’s three stage model as a way of helping organisation manage change effectively. Change is part of an organisation and can occur at any point in time (Nalband, 2016, p.35). In his article, Nalband provides an illustration where a new employee in an organisation can trigger a change in an organisation. Gastaldi and Corso (2013, p.60) assert that change in an organisation promotes effectiveness and improvement in performance; however, organisations fail to deal with changes because most of them lack the ecosystem that support and complement change. Change can also be witnessed in the economy through various formulations of policies (Yusuf & Nisreen, p.53). Therefore, because change is inevitable in organisations, Lewin formulated the Lewin three stage theory which is widely referred to as Unfreeze, Moving, and refreeze (Spector, 2013). The essay will focus on the importance of each stage.UnfreezeAccording to Lewin, Unfreeze is the stage where an organisation realizes that change is unavoidable (Spector, 2013). According to Spector, the unfreeze stage is a juncture where an organisation realizes