Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Managing Organizational
Change
What changes in organizations
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or incremental
Continuous and small-scale
Anticipation and fine-tuning
Reaction and adaptation
Second-order or transformational
Discontinuous and large-scale
Anticipation and reorientation
Reaction and re-creation
First-order change-subtypes
Change
iniatives
Going beyond jobs
Change as the development of local
routines
Going beyond routines
Second-order change-subtypes
Delayering
Networks
and alliances
Outsourcing
Disaggregation
Empowerment
Flexible work groups
Short-term staffing
Reduction of internal and external
boundaries
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Second-order changemagnitude
Type
1: professionalization
Type 2: revitalization
Type 3: renewal
In-between changes
Mid-range
organizational change
Punctuated equilibrium
Robust transformation
Jolts
Step functions
Oscillation
Implications
Change
Downsizing challenges
Employee
retention
Avoiding hard landings
Minimizing political behavior and
loss of teamwork
Survivor syndrome
Communication
Due diligence
Cultural adjustment
Choice of restructuring technique
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Technological change
challenges
Goal
synthesis
Choice of technology
Identifying political barriers
The IT team
Communication
Time frame
Contingency planning
savings
Cultural adjustment
Balancing change and continuity
Due diligence
Employee retention
Contingency planning
Power structure
Communication
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