CHAPTER 10

Bringing It All Together

Shifting Change From a Noun to a Verb

The presence of the environmental stressors mentioned earlier suggests that most organizations will have to adjust (change) to meet these conditions in such a manner that will either be continuous or so frequent as to seem continuous (Arena 2002; Senge, Kleiner, Roberts, Ross, Roth, and Smith 1999; Ashkenas, Ulrich, Jick, and Kerr 2002). The demands of the organization’s stakeholders and market forces create pressure on management to act. Waterson, Clegg, Bolden, Pepper, Warr and Wallet (1999) noted that organizations have been taking on a wide range of change initiatives to compete in this environment and the trend does not appear to be abating.

Kelley (2016) noted this ...

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