MHR 650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geopolitics, Change Management, Adaptive Capacity
3 Apr 2017
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Activities and innovations of customers, mergers and acquisitions. Head office and factory relocation, closer to suppliers and markets. Low performance and morale high stress and staff turnover. Change is a result of strategic pressures and controllable by managers. Interpreter managers need to give meaning to pressures. Managers need to enhance adaptive capacity of organization. Lets appear progressive: do not rush to adopt, but do not dismiss the approach either. Demography: the silver tsunami, boomers, gen y, gen c. Demographic changes, affecting workforce composition and motivation, pose some of the greatest challenges for organizational change management. Change is often forced on organizations through formally mandated legislation and regulation: formal coercive pressures include government mandates such as new laws and policies. Reputation: process, product and service failures, governance problems. Geopolitics: interdependent global economy, global warming, climate change. Institutionalized mission: where stakeholders have clear expectations of how an organization will pursue its goals, the organization"s capacity to innovate will be constrained.
