BU288 Chapter 16: Chapter 16 Organizational Change, Development, and Innovation .docx
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Why organizations must change: external sources and internal sources. Environmental changes must be matched by organizational change if the organization is to remain effective. Relationships among environmental change, organizational change, and organizational effectiveness. A word should be said about the perception of threat and change. Sometimes, when threat is perceived, organizations unfreeze (see below), scan the environment for solutions, and use the threat as motivation for change. Change almost always entails some investment of resources requires some modification of routines and processes. If either of these prerequisites is missing, inertia will occur. Goals and strategies frequently change their goals and strategies they use to reach these goals. Expansion, the introduction of new products, pursuit of new markets. Introduction of online web access is a fairly minor change: moving from an assembly line to flexible manufacturing is a major change. Job design can redesign individual groups of jobs to offer more or less variety, autonomy, identity , significance, and feedback.
