ADMS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The Final Destination, Learning Organization, Paradigm Shift

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Peter Modir

Document Summary

Focusing on day to day routines and goals can create resistance to change. Change may be required to organizational systems and structures that have been in place for a long time. It also requires individuals to change, the way they do their work and whom they work with as well as reporting systems and roles. Bureaucracies have rigid rules and procedures in place which can create resistance to change. Although they allow for control and some level of security and consistency this can limit creativity and innovation (i. e. change). Theory e focuses on formal structural and systemic change. Top-driven top managers decide on the format and process of change. Scott paper loss of 11,000 jobs, divestment of business units, relocation of hq. Theory o focuses on change in human capability, learning from change. Emergent and permeates all levels of the organization. Champion international high employee involvement, improved relations with unions, skill-based pay system, no layoffs.