Organizational Development Based Change Management

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 change and development.

Recent analyses of organizational change suggest a growing concern with the tempo of change, understood as the characteristic rate, rhythm, or pattern of work or activity. Episodic change is contrasted with continuous change on the basis of implied metaphors of organizing, analytic frameworks, ideal organizations, intervention theories, and roles for change agents. Episodic change follows the s...

Organizational Change and Customer Relationship Management Success

The shift from a product-oriented business strategy to a customer-focused one has been a major change agent in companies recently. Many companies have invested heavily in technologies enabling a customer-focused relationship marketing strategy. However, there are mixed results as to how successful firms have been in implementing customer relationship management systems. The challenge of managin...

Organizational Mindfulness: Safety Culture and Change Management

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...