Change In Management Techniques

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world was not as prominent as it is today. Those businesses operated in a relatively stable environment meaning that there was a certain level of predictability, making change a disregarded issue. However with new forces coming into play during the late nineteen sixties such as global competition, technological advances and changes in consumerism, organizational change was suddenly a prominent issue to be dealt with if the organization intended to succeed.


CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Organizational change is often inevitable and extremely necessary. It becomes necessary as it enhances and improves the overall performance of the organization giving way to success. Managing organizational change is a serious challenge in today's workplace. Change poses a threat to almost everyone because at a minimum, it results in loss of the familiar. The ability to embrace change and develop work habits is necessary if the result of success is to be derived. This success depends on the management ...

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(1989) says "changes in the structure of the task and authority relationships, mean changes in the nature of the jobs, bases for departmentation, and on line staff therefore, structural changes" (p 31).

Ramon Aldag and Timothy Stearns in Managing .. (1991) define technological change as "includes any application of new ways to transform resources into the product or service that the organization uses or offers" (p 435). This change of technology which usually leads to an improvement in the product or service offered leads to the success of the organization, as it becomes more efficient. The cultural changes concern the employees of the organization, with emphasis on the alteration of ...

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