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Navigating Organizational Change: Strategies & Challenges

Explore various types of organizational change, implications, downsizing challenges, technological change hurdles, and mergers & acquisitions dilemmas. Learn about first-order, second-order, and in-between changes through insightful perspectives from expert Çağrı Topal.

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Navigating Organizational Change: Strategies & Challenges

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  1. BA 4226Managing Organizational ChangeWhat changes in organizations Instructor: Çağrı Topal

  2. Types of organizational change • First-order or incremental • Continuous and small-scale • Anticipation and fine-tuning • Reaction and adaptation • Second-order or transformational • Discontinuous and large-scale • Anticipation and reorientation • Reaction and re-creation

  3. First-order change-subtypes • Change as the taking of individual iniatives • Going beyond jobs • Change as the development of local routines • Going beyond routines

  4. Second-order change-subtypes • Delayering • Networks and alliances • Outsourcing • Disaggregation • Empowerment • Flexible work groups • Short-term staffing • Reduction of internal and external boundaries

  5. Second-order change-magnitude • Type 1: professionalization • Type 2: revitalization • Type 3: renewal

  6. In-between changes • Mid-range organizational change • Punctuated equilibrium • Robust transformation • Jolts • Step functions • Oscillation

  7. Implications • Change types may not be neatly categorized • Multiple types of changes may occur simultaneously or nested and interrelated • Small changes may have larger unanticipated consequences • Inertial forces may prevent adaptive changes • Change and stability is intertwined • Change may add on torather than remove current practices • Incremental change is not always less risky

  8. Downsizing challenges • Employee retention • Avoiding hard landings • Minimizing political behavior and loss of teamwork • Survivor syndrome • Communication • Due diligence • Cultural adjustment • Choice of restructuring technique

  9. Technological change challenges • Goal synthesis • Choice of technology • Identifying political barriers • The IT team • Communication • Time frame • Contingency planning

  10. Mergers and acquisitions challenges • Cost savings • Cultural adjustment • Balancing change and continuity • Due diligence • Employee retention • Contingency planning • Power structure • Communication

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