- Organizational change is a complex process that alters the functional state of the whole organization
- Changes can be initiated in people, technologies, processes or structures, but they will propagate across the whole organization
- The driving forces for such complex changes can be determined by the need of survival, adaptation to a dynamic business environment, reengineering process, shifting to a new vision
- Organizational change imply the presence of all management levels (top management, middle management and executive management)
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES
Incremental/ Developmental change
- It is a continuous process of change with small steps/ increments in time. It is a directional change.
- A typical incremental change process is TQM
- By the end of each year there is an evaluation of the progress made, and then a new step is decided
- This is also a method used in continuous adaptation to the environmental dynamics
- It is a preferable method since risks associated to each change step are rather small
- Also, investments in incremental change are small
