EDRD 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Transformational Leadership, Trait Theory, Contingency Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3140
• Professor: Susan Brown

Document Summary

Start up phases, company develops a market and creates a system. Growth phases: client relationships are built and the size of the company grows. Steady harvest phase: the company serves existing clients. Decay stage: services become less relevant to the marketplace. Zorn, page and cheney: organizations must organize for a continuous change, to become a flexible organization that can adapt quickly to environmental changes. Organizations naturally evolve and adapt to environmental needs. There are models of organizational life that consider the natural ways in which organizations ebb and flow of institutional life and industry history. There are many unintended consequences of planned change. Senior managers have very different ideas about the change than the employees who implement the change. The complicated nature of communication within each of these groups and the sometimes limited interaction between top management and employees, even a meticulously planned change can have unanticipated outcomes.