Managing Research, Development, and Innovation: Managing the Unmanageable, Third Edition

13.3. PROBLEMS AND ACTION STEPS

There are a number of problems associated with implementing major organizational changes. Managers who are not sensitive to these problems and attempt to implement organizational changes in an autocratic manner will find themselves imposing an enormous cost on the organization, as well as to the individuals involved and, indeed, to the very objectives that they had hoped to accomplish. Oxtoby, McGuiness, and Morgan (2002) note that people generally do not destroy what they themselves have created. This explains why it is important to implement change from within instead of importing a model for organizational change from elsewhere.

Management should provide an analysis indicating the need for organizational change ...