ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Organizational Change

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Organizational Change

Thesis Statement

"The only thing standing in the world is change". (Chinese proverb)

Change is the passage of a personal situation, social group or another. It constitutes a change in values, attitudes and behaviors. The change is played by individuals (individuals, groups, organizations and other social actors) in a time and in a given space. Therefore, it is contextualized. All change involves unlearning and learning (unstructured knowledge, behaviors and old patterns and models, taking, exercising and internalizing new) (Ansoff and McDonnel 1990).

Organizational Change

Organizational change is the formation of a new organizational structure adequate to the nature of changes in the external environment. Organizational changes are accompanied by scrapping conventional and shared staff values, norms and patterns of action, as well as traditional methods of decision-making, which become an obstacle in adapting the organization to the pace and direction of market changes.

All organizations from time to time need to change something in their strategies and structures. In the past, when the external environment was relatively stable, most organizations have carried out minor, but rather the quantitative changes in order to solve immediate problems or take advantage of newly discovered opportunities. However, the last ten or fifteen years, companies around the world have been faced with the necessity of radical changes in strategy, structure and management processes to adapt to new requirements of competition. Global competition and rapid technological change, is likely to lead to more significant structural and strategic changes in the coming decade (Spector 2010).

Analysis and Discussion

This essay analyzes what is organizational change at Ford, which means for organizations, what causes it, the ways you can express, what types of changes are, how they affect Ford, how should be implemented to minimize resistance to its implementation. After the analysis of the effects, advantages and disadvantages of organizational change in Ford Company, guidelines are to demonstrate or convince managers that the best option is the planned change in some way that should be the strategy to minimize resistance implementation in Ford.

The change means moving from one status to another and affects individuals, groups and organizations alike, all organizations experience some changes and they are getting faster. The most frequent changes in organizations are caused in the structure due to mergers, matching the size and growth or reductions, caused by the technology, organizational culture and society it.

Reasons for Making Change

There are four reasons for making changes in organizations (Burnes 2004).

Improve the means to meet economic needs,

Increase profitability,

Provide jobs for people and

Contribute to satisfaction and welfare of individuals. However, we must recognize that there are three realities on the other hand, on the one hand, is everywhere, it is also constant and the rate presented is growing fast. Organizations face a wide variety of dramatic changes in government regulations, others have deregulation, some are broken, while others merge, some are shrinking their market and others are thrown into the global market, engage in mergers or hostile takeovers , while ...