Organizational change theories A synthesis

Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change

Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

A Taxonomy of Organizational Justice Theories

A taxonomy is presented that categorizes theories of organizational justice with respect to two independent dimensions: a reactiveproactive dimension and a process-content dimension. Various theories within each of the four resulting categories are identified. The implications of the taxonomy are discussed with respect to clarifying theoretical interrelationships, tracking research trends, and ...

Change Management Optimizing Organizational Change

Anyone in a leadership position is well aware that any type of change within their organization is never easy but is a normal part of progress; such change is especially commonplace in the dynamic nature of the current health care landscape. Despite that knowledge, how best to manage change is often unclear and/or ill-defined. This is particularly troublesome when one considers that a given cha...

"Organizational Commitment: Testing Two Theories"

On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change

Traditional approaches to organizational change have been dominated by assumptions privileging stability, routine, and order. As a result, organizational change has been reified and treated as exceptional rather than natural. In this paper, we set out to offer an account of organizational change on its own terms—to treat change as the normal condition of organizational life. The central questio...