The Nature of Organization

Change
• Organization Change
– Any substantive modification to some part of the
organization (e.g., work schedules, machinery,
employees).
• Forces for Change
– External forces in the organization’s general and
task environments force the organization to alter
the way in which it competes.
– Internal forces inside the organization cause it to
change its structure and strategy; some internal
forces are responses to external pressures.
 TYPES OF CHANGES
• Evolutionary Change
• Revolutionary Change
• Planned Change
• Happenned Change
• Reactive Change
• Anticipatory Change
• Incremental Change
• Operational Change
• Startegic Change
• Directional Change
• Fundamental Change
• Total Change
• Transformational Change
Common form Of Changes

• Planned Change
– Change that is designed and
implemented in an orderly and
timely fashion in anticipation of
future events.
• Reactive Change
– Change that is a piecemeal
response to events and
circumstances as they develop.
Steps in the
Change
Process

7–5
 THE INTEGRATING MODEL OF
CHANGE
Exploratio Planning Action Phase Integration
n Phase Phase Phase

Change Process Change Change Change Process

Process Process
Need Awareness
Stabilisation
Dignosis Implementatio
Search n Diffusion
Contracting Design Renewal
Decision Evaluation
 MODELS OF CHANGE
• Socio-Technical Model

• LEWIN’S Change Model

• Action Research Model

• Integrated Model of Planned Change

 RESISTANCE to CHANGE
INDIVIDUAL ORGANISATIONAL
• Economic Reason • Threats to Power &
• Obsolescence of Skill Influence
• Personal Reason • Organisational
• Ego defensiveness Structure
• Status Quo • Resource Constraint
• Fear of Un-Known
• Social Displacement
• Peer Pressure