ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Organizational Change

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Introduction

Change in any business has become an essential element to survive in the market and to make the customers satisfied. There are hundreds and thousands of ways and techniques that could assist the businesses to improve their productivity, quality and customer satisfaction. If companies do not respond to the changes, they will become victims of their own success. Therefore, companies should constantly look into ways to change their process in order to survive in the rapidly changing world.

Changes in engineering and the construction companies can be conceptualized in terms of both process and content. Process of the change refers to how the change has occurred. Content explains that what changes has taken place in the organization. Theories of organizational culture tell that why the change was needed and what are the possible consequences of the change. Changes primarily occur due to changes in environment, technology or changes in customer requirements. Organizational change is a transformation in an organization to fulfill any requirement which caused any change in the organization. The Organizational analysts in engineering companies have observed that such changes often take unexpected turns and lead to transformation other than those required. Researchers have also concluded that when any action or decision is taken in the organization, it often bring the change as a by-product which are known as unintentional changes. The main objective of this paper is to talk about organization change. This paper discusses the impact of implementing and managing change on culture of the organization. The paper also talks about the organizational changes with respect to a particular organization. This organization is Google.

Organizational Change

Organizational change is the formation of a new organizational structure and brining about appropriate changes in the nature of the environment of the organization. The organizational change is any modification that enables an organization to stay in a temporary space of environment and it is relatively stable. Organizational change is defined as the ability to adapt to different organizational transformations as a result of the changes in the internal or external environment. Another way in which the organizational change can be defined is that organizational change is the change in the set of structural order experienced by an organization, which result in a new organizational behavior. Organizational change is a proactive process of transformation that operates on the organizational culture that can not only refer to organizational processes objectively but also subjectively to the people involved (Gerry 1992, 28).

Forces Driving Innovation and Change in Today's Organizations

Readiness to Change

In order to bring a successful change in the organization, it is important to understand the components necessary to bring change. Three factors are taken into considerations, which are attitudes of employees towards change, culture of the organizational and organizational learning.

Employee attitudes

Any organizational changes' success is dependent on the attitudes of the employees. Employee attitude is considered as an indicator of the success of any organizational change. As changes require the learning of new talents and attitudes, it requires an ...