Organizational Change: The Effectiveness Of Organizational Change

Organizational Change "The effectiveness of organizational change is greatest when a firm’s strategy is consistent with environmental conditions and there is internal consistency." (D A Nadler, 2003:204) The only thing that is constant in this world is change and this is widely acknowledged by many in the world, may it be a corporation or a social forum or a governmental body. What comes in this world has to experience change in the light of environmental elements and pressures and influences, internal or external. The study of organizational behavior gives that environmental factors are the political, legal, economic, demographic, technological, social and societal. While these are the external environmental factors that are and cannot be counted among the controllable factors for an organization, they do in fact influence organizational structure, policies and strategies. In turn, the internal environment of the organization, that is very much controlled by the management of the organization and comprises of the top to bottom managerial levels, the staff, the employees, the board of directors, the owners etc. this internal environment, is to a great extent the result of external environmental factors, the change of which results in the direct impact on the internal environment of the organization. As such in lieu of external environmental factors; change agents with in the organization tend to accept the change in their external factors and tries to bring about a compatible change within the internal environment of the organization. The effectiveness of the change that is being brought about with in the organization as a result of the changing external environmental forces is best when, as described by Nadler, the internal facto...

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...uctive interpersonal associations. Many have argued that the change effectiveness works as a fundamental hub in every one organizational scrutiny, standing-in as the objective or organization plan and organization modification. Even though, there are people that put forward that there are confines in the characterization of this perception as many have the same opinion that the organizational effectiveness perception mirrors and be a symbol of a wide range of wanted organizational results. But this can be achieved by equating the equation by means of continuous improvement, kaizen, in terms of values, culture, beliefs and norms that accept that “effectiveness of organizational change is greatest when a firm’s strategy is consistent with environmental conditions and there is internal consistency”. Reference Todd. D Jick and Maury Peiper: 2003 (2nd edition) Managing