COMM 292 Chapter Notes -Loop Jump, Job Satisfaction, Radical Change
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Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, global competition, management and/or organization structure. Integrating different function areas, modifying the degree of centralization, downsizing, relying on job rotation and/or multi-skilling, outsourcing, collaborating on r&d. Nature of the workforce: ex. adjusting to a multicultural environment or aging workforce, human resource policies and practices have to change. Competition: global competitors, growth of e-commerce. Job redesign more autonomy increased job satisfaction. Importance of how you motivate employees to attain specific outcomes. Reorganizing the workplace changing the structure to flatter structures more interconnections within. Change agents = people who act as catalysts and assume the responsibility for managing change activities. Possibility: hire services of someone outside the firm (consultants) to provide advice and assistance with major change: objective perspective, disadvantage: inadequate understanding of the org"s history, culture, procedures, and personnel. Prone to initiating more drastic change than necessary. Moving efforts to get employees involved in the change process.
