ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Organizational Change

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Introduction

These days, in order to survive, the organization must implement change. New discoveries and inventions are quickly replacing the standard ways of working. Organizations that spend most of their time and resources to maintain the status quo are unlikely to thrive in today's changing environment. The successful organization is constantly in motion. Organization is a living organism that is constantly moving in the direction of growth or decline. All organizations aim to develop and, therefore, their goal is to move in a positive direction, in the direction of growth (Dooley & Van de Ven, 1999, pp. 358-372). Construction and project managers are looking for ways to encourage innovation, which would enable organizations to meet the changing environment, to develop and make progress towards the goals.

The underlying causes of change are the forces that are external to the organization. First, they are hardly noticeable and do not feel the company perceived as external environment. With the gradual changes in technology, methods and means of penetrating the organization of competitors and partners, construction companies are trying to bring change in their culture and operations in order to respond to external changes (http://www.nwoglca.org, 2004, pp. 9-13). There are new standards of quality, time and work. Without taking into account the changes and further development, the organization threatens to the effectiveness of their work. These changes are becoming internal rather than external and thus affect the internal environment of an organization. The need for change is inevitable in such a situation.

Organizational Change

Organizations are created by people and their relationships with each other. The organization exists when people interact in order to perform some actions needed to achieve the goal. Modern trends in the management of stress the importance of human resources, and most of the new approach is based on providing more opportunities to employees to encourage them to learn and to put themselves in a common cause, as they all work together to achieve a common goal (http://www.nwoglca.org, 2004, pp. 9-13).

Most organizations today tend to be more horizontal coordination of their actions, often using the approach in which the number of employees with different responsibilities of professional work as a team on a common project. As organizations are met with the need to respond quickly to changes in the environment, the boundaries between departments, as well as between the organizations are becoming more flexible and fuzzy. No modern organization exists without the interaction with customers, suppliers, competitors and other elements of the environment. Today, some construction companies are working even with their competitors, sharing information and technology, getting from this mutual benefit (Dooley & Van de Ven, 1999, pp. 358-372).

Organization needs to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, and do have an impact on the environment. Some large companies have special departments in charge of monitoring the environment and searching for ways to adapt to it and influence it. One of the most significant changes in the environment today - globalization. Today, in this competitive world, construction ...