Organizational Change

Paper Summary:

This paper examines key concepts in organizational change, with a discussion on implementing changes in schools with low performance records. The first section of the paper defines organizational change. The paper describes the characteristics necessary for a leader to implement change within an organization. The role of the human resources department is also examined in terms of an organizational change. Four methods for handling change are presented and defined. The importance of having a strategic plan for implementing a change is also explored. This is the section in which change for low performing schools is used as an example.


Outline:
Overview of Organizational Change
The Skills that a Leader Must have for Implementing Change
Human Resources-the Key Element to a Successful Change Process
A Strategic Plan for Implementing Change
Bibliography

From the Paper:

"Organizational change is often based on a single project and designates the nature of all those activities aimed at improving corporation's performance. The result of the above process bears the name of organizational development (OD) and refers to the company's evolution during change activities. This is a very important delimitation from a theoretical point of view as the two concepts often overlap in people's minds (McNamara, 1997). In time, organizational development made the object of several definitions which modified their content according to the transition from organizations perceived as stable and closed systems to organizations seen as flexible and environmentally adaptive entities whose most significant asset is represented by human resources. A standard definition from 1969 stated that: "Organization Development is an effort planned, organization-wide, and managed from the top, to increase organization effectiveness and health through planned interventions in the organization's 'processes,' using behavioral-science knowledge" (Beckhard, 1969, quoted by McNamara, 1997)."

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