REC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Longrun
3 Apr 2013
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Refers to organization wide hinge, not smaller change like adding a new person or modifying a program. A change in mission, restructuring operations, new technologies, mergers, major collaborations, rightsizing. Requires a fundamental and radical reorientation in the way an organization operates. Change should not be done for the sake of change it"s a strategy to accomplish some overall goal. Usually provoked by some major outside driving force. Typically, organizations must undertake organization wide change in order to evolve to a different level in their life cycle. Organizations are inertial (resistant to change) and change is infrequent. Tends to be dramatic and driven externally. Seen as a failure of the organization to adapt its structure to changing environment. Organizations are emergent and self-organizing, and change is constant and evolving. Change is a pattern of endless modification in work processes and social practice.
