Term Papers on Organizational Change And Resistance To Change

Term Paper Title	Organizational Change And Resistance To Change
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Organizational Change and Resistance to Change

Title of Paper : organizational change and resistance to change
Grade Received on Report : 78

     Future generations, looking back on the last years of the twentieth century, will see a contradictory
picture of great promise and equally at great uncertainty. The 1990's have all the symptoms of a "turning
point" in world history, a moment when many of the structural "givens" of social development themselves
become problematic and world society undergoes profound reorganization. These developments occur
within a frame work of rapidly expanding social and economic interdependence on a global scale.

     Organizations evolve through periods of incremental or evolutionary change. The major work
changes happening today are changes in organizational strategy, organizational structure and design,
technology and human resources.
     A change in organizational strategy is an attempt to alter the organization's alignment with it's
environment. Mercedes, for example, is going to introduce this year the new Classe A, which is more
oriented to the new young generation who wants to own a Mercedes. Though Mercedes wants to keep its
image of a high class car producer, it overtook this new strategy to reinforce its presence in the market.
     Organization change might also focus on any of the basic components of organization structure or
on the organization whole design. Nobuhiko Kawamoto, president of Honda, recently reorganized the
Japanese automaker's management hierarchy. He drew up a new organization chart, he created a planning
board and he has taken steps to empower lower-level workers. All this in order to adapt better to the fierce
market of car making.
     Because of the rapid rate of all technological innovation, technological changes are becoming
increasingly important to many organizations. One major area of change involves equipment, thus a change
in work processes or work activities maybe necessary. Timex, for example, 3-D design software from
Toronto based software Alias Research Inc. to be able to turn out watches faster. Organization control
systems may also be targets of such a change.
     Another area of organization change has to do with human resources. An organization might
decide to change the skill-level of its work force and the level of performance of its workers. Perceptions
and expectations, attitudes and values are also a common focus on organizational change.

     Organizational change is anticipated or triggered because of different changing circumstances, an
organization might incur a change because of forces bending its environment. These forces might be either
external or internal.
     The external forces derive from the organization's general or task environments. The  general
environment is parted into different dimensions: the international, the economic, the technological, the
socio-cultural and the
political-legal dimension. A good example is Russia's shift from a communist country to a capitalistic one.
This shift affected organizations inside and outside Russia, on the economical and political-legal levels,
organizations inside the country had to take on drastic changes to flow with the environment nationally and
internationally. On an international level, international organizations saw in Russia an interesting potential
market.
As for the task environment it includes competitors, customers, suppliers, regulators and strategic allies.
Pepsi Lebanon had always been the only cola producer in the country since the early 1970's, until lately
Coca-Cola entered the market once more. Pepsi realizing the danger of its competitor launched a new
marketing strategy to keep its customers.
     The internal forces are mainly related to the organization's internal environment but some internal
forces might be reflections of external ones.

     All organizations will experience change at one time or another. Obviously, expanding the
boundaries of exchange and cultural contact creates both opportunity and risk. ...

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