3.2 MEANING OF ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
Change is a kind of learning process. New ideas, new values, new skills, and ways of behaviour have to be learned if significant change is to take place. One of the basic findings about learning is that its rate is not uniform throughout. Although the rate pattern differs for different kinds of learning, it generally goes through several stages: slow start, acceleration, rapid rate, and levelling off. On a graph, the line of learning speed appears as an S-shaped curve. This is called the learning curve as shown in Fig. 3.1.
Fig. 3.1 Learning curve
Learning takes place slowly during the early, experimental ...
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