Organizational Change And Resistance To Change

organizational change and resistance to change

Future generations, looking back on the last years of the twentieth century, will see a contradictory
picture of great promise and equally at great uncertainty. The 1990's have all the symptoms of a "turning
point" in world history, a moment when many of the structural "givens" of social development themselves
become problematic and world society undergoes profound reorganization. These developments occur
within a frame work of rapidly expanding social and economic interdependence on a global scale.

Organizations evolve through periods of incremental or evolutionary change. The major work
changes happening today are changes in organizational strategy, organizational structure and design,
technology and human resources.
A change in organizational strategy is an attempt to alter the organization's alignment with it's
environment. Mercedes, for example, is going to introduce this year the new Classe A, which is more
oriented to the new young generation who wants to own a Mercedes. Though Mercedes wants to keep its
image of a high class car producer, it overtook this new strategy to reinforce its presence in the market.
Organization change might also focus on any of the basic components of organization structure or
on the organization whole design. Nobuhiko Kawamoto, president of Honda, recently reorganized the
Japanese automaker's management hierarchy. He drew up a new organization chart, he created a planning
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Organizational Change And Resistance To Change

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