MHR 650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Markel Corporation, Boeing, Adaptive Capacity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 650
• Professor: Frank Miller

Document Summary

Change is a risky activity many organizational changes fail or do not realize their intended outcomes. Economic satisfy shareholders: aligned with management as control images of change managers the director, navigator, and caretaker images. Learning building capability o: aligned with management as shaping perspective by the coach, interpreter and nurturer images. Debate: role of the external environment: organizational learning vs. threat-rigidity, whether external pressures facilitate or inhibit the process of change. Environment as an objective entity vs. environment as a cognitive construction: the former treats the environment as an objective entity to which managers must respond. The latter emphasizes the centrality of managers" interpretations of environmental conditions as the key determinant of behavior. Forces for change vs. forces for stability: external forces can vary; they either promote change or promote stability. They establish good and bad right and wrong . It is the theory that decides what can be observed. albert einstein.