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Organizational Change 2019-2020Lecture 1 - Introduction 12/11/2019
Change is about People
- Individuals, but also groups…
- Embedded in technology, structures, rules and regulations, processes, routines, habits,
culture… quite stable things.. that make organizations even more difficult to change
- And organizations and people are embedded in wider environments.
For organizations too – having an idea is important, yet implementing may be hard
60-80% failure rate (ppt. 13)
Framework Organizational Change
- Overview of theory and application possibilities → An aid while studying Senior & Swailes
Two central lines of reasoning in Senior and Swailes
Contingency
● How to do change is dependent on the change situation (the what of the change,
the pace of the change, its urgency and its predictability, the capacity for change,
the degree of acceptance of the change by stakeholders….etc.)
● Complexity ¶
● Situations differ in terms of complexity (difficulties versus messes, hard versus soft)
Today: Chapters S & S
1. Organizations and their changing situations
2. The nature of organizational change- highlights
In short, S & S state that organizational change is influenced by… :
1. Internal System
2. External Environment
3. History
Consider the above in your diagnosis!
Organization as a system: internal factors
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