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Although there are many types of organizational changes, the critical aspect is a company's ability to win the buy-in of their organization's employees on the change. Effectively managing organizational change is a four-step process: [36] Recognizing the changes in the broader business environment
In a business context, agility is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to market and environmental changes in productive and cost-effective ways. An extension of this concept is the agile enterprise, which refers to an organization that uses key principles of complex adaptive systems and complexity science to achieve success. [3]
More specifically, organizational adaptation is premised on organizational decision-making that is intentional, whereby decision-makers are aware of their environment; relational, in that organizations and environments influence one another; conditioned, in that environmental characteristics evolved with other organizations’ actions; and ...
Organization development (OD) is the study and implementation of practices, systems, and techniques that affect organizational change. The goal of which is to modify a group's/organization's performance and/or culture. The organizational changes are typically initiated by the group's stakeholders.
involves adapting the organization to its business environment; is fluid and complex. Change creates novel combinations of circumstances requiring unstructured non-repetitive responses; affects the entire organization by providing direction; involves both strategy formulation processes and also implementation of the content of the strategy;
Organizational culture influences the organization's ability to adapt to change. Culture in an organization is a self-reinforcing set of beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Culture is one of the most resistant elements of organizational behavior and is extremely difficult to change.
The scanning process makes the organization aware of what the business environment is about. It allows the organization to adapt and learn from that environment. [19] When the company responds to an environmental scanning process it allows them to easily respond and react to any changes to both the internal and external business environment.
Top management may not have clearly articulated the organization's strategy. Management does not fully shape the organization's structure and processes to fit a chosen strategy. A tendency for management to maintain an organization's current strategy-structure relationship despite overwhelming changes in environmental conditions.