ORGS 2010 Lecture 10: Organizational Change.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Frank Miller

Document Summary

Organizations facing strong pressures to change and become flexible to change continuously. Rapid changing technologies, globalization of markets and competition. Organizations want to become flatter, more flexible, networked, diverse and global. Resistance to change is a basic feature of human nature. Change can be in the design: from geographic structure based on countries with a global product design: new set of liaison or integrator positions can be creased, new cross-functioning teams or change in reporting/incentive system. New ceo may want to change the top management. Urgent strategic needs may call for change as well. Changes have impact on employees work, careers and entire organization culture. Organizational change organization and the world in which it operates. : change in norms, values, mental models and shared assumptions about the: essential to develop people"s behaviours and how they carry out their activities, nissan faced culture of blame[ when something went wrong it was someone else"s fault. Product panning blamed engineering, engineering blamed finance.