BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Behavioural Sciences, Learning Organization, Organizational Learning
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Bu288 chapter 16: organizational change, development, and innovation. Organizations work hard to stabilize their inputs and outputs. Impact of external environment in stimulating organizational change is increased competitiveness of business. Brought on by a more global economy, deregulation, and advanced technology forced businesses to become leaner and meaner. Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures with foreign firms have become commonplace, as have less adversarial relationships with unions and suppliers. Change can be provoked by forces in internal environment of organization low productivity, conflict, strikes, sabotage, and high absenteeism and turnover are some factors that signal change is necessary. Internal forces for change occur in response to organizational changes that are designed to deal with the external environment. Many mergers and acquisitions bolster the competitiveness of an organization followed by cultural conflict between merged parties. When threat is perceived, organizations unfreeze", scan environment for solutions, and use threat as motivator for change.
