Saturday, February 8, 2014

Organizational & Individual Perspectives

1.      Tuning: The most common, least intense, and least risky type of change. Also known as preventive maintenance and kaizen (continuous improvement). Key is to actively anticipate and avoid problems rather than waiting for something to go wrong
2.      Adaptation: Incremental changes that are in reaction to external problems, events, or pressures. 3.      Reorientation: Change that is anticipatory and strategic in scope and causes the organization to be significantly redirected. Also called “frame bending” (Nadler and Tushman). 
4.      Re-Creation: Intense, risky, and decisive change that reinvents the organization. Also called “frame breaking” (Nadler and Tushman)


Individual Reactions to Change happens on an individual level, even in the workplace. How People Respond to Changes They Like
Three-stage process
1.      Unrealistic optimism
2.      Reality shock
3.      Constructive direction
How People Tend to Respond to Changes They Like

On-the-Job changes generally are more feared than welcomed. How People Respond to Changes They Fear and Dislike. 

Stages
1.      Getting off on the wrong track
2.      Laughing it off
3.      Growing self-doubt
4.      Buying in
5.      Constructive direction
How People Respond to Changes They Fear and Dislike

 How to Help Individuals Deal with Change: A Contingency Approach



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