MHR 650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Boeing, Adaptive Capacity, Organizational Learning

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

Document Summary

Change is a result of strategic pressures and controllable by managers" ability to direct the organization"s response. Strategic change is in response to internal and external pressures. Multiple pressures facing managers will need to be taken into account. Caretaker managers have little control over the inevitable pressures on the organization. Managers have little choice in the organization"s actions. Pressures for change are constant and result in the need to develop and shape the organization"s capabilities to better enhance organizational outcomes. Pressures for change are internal and external and managers need to understand and give meaning to these. Pressures for change are large and small and the manager"s role is to enhance the adaptive capacity of the organization. An organization changes through formally or informally mandated requirements. Macroeconomic changes (or crises) place pressure on organizations to change the way they operate. When current markets begin to decline there is pressure to find newer, more viable markets.