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Introduction
It is very important to understand thematters related to change of an organization. Organizational change is a process whereby the organization enhances the performance towards achieving its goals of ideal state. The reaction to an ever changing environment, a reaction to situational crisis or instigation by the leader stimulates the organization to change. Success in organizational change is notsimplya process ofchange, but also needsadequatemanaging capabilities. However, there are many areas to be considered to achieve successful change.Thus, this essay intends to present the ideas about the understanding of organizational change, the need for organizational change, how planning organizational change appears to be easy,and finally the possible factors leading to difficulty in implementing the organizational change.
Understanding organizational change
Pierce, Gardner and Dunham (2002, pp. 628-629) proclaims that the"Organizational change is the movement of an organization from its current state to some future and hopefully more effective state. Organizational change does not occur spontaneously; it takes place when the force encouraging changes become more powerful than those resisting change”.An incredible number of factors such as internal and external driving forces for change encourage the organization to change. For instant, a strategic plan for ‘product diversification’ can be a compelling internal force for change. Similarly, advancementin technology from outside the organization can be a powerful external force for a change.Communication revolutionized through digitalization and advancement of biotechnological industries through gene mapping is typical example of change driven by new technological progression (Pierce, Gardner and Dunham 2002).
According to Poole and Van de Van (ed. 2004, p. xi) organizational change is defined as ‘a difference in forms, quality, or state over time in an organizational entity’. They suggested that
It is very important to understand thematters related to change of an organization. Organizational change is a process whereby the organization enhances the performance towards achieving its goals of ideal state. The reaction to an ever changing environment, a reaction to situational crisis or instigation by the leader stimulates the organization to change. Success in organizational change is notsimplya process ofchange, but also needsadequatemanaging capabilities. However, there are many areas to be considered to achieve successful change.Thus, this essay intends to present the ideas about the understanding of organizational change, the need for organizational change, how planning organizational change appears to be easy,and finally the possible factors leading to difficulty in implementing the organizational change.
Understanding organizational change
Pierce, Gardner and Dunham (2002, pp. 628-629) proclaims that the"Organizational change is the movement of an organization from its current state to some future and hopefully more effective state. Organizational change does not occur spontaneously; it takes place when the force encouraging changes become more powerful than those resisting change”.An incredible number of factors such as internal and external driving forces for change encourage the organization to change. For instant, a strategic plan for ‘product diversification’ can be a compelling internal force for change. Similarly, advancementin technology from outside the organization can be a powerful external force for a change.Communication revolutionized through digitalization and advancement of biotechnological industries through gene mapping is typical example of change driven by new technological progression (Pierce, Gardner and Dunham 2002).
According to Poole and Van de Van (ed. 2004, p. xi) organizational change is defined as ‘a difference in forms, quality, or state over time in an organizational entity’. They suggested that