Organizational Change
Organizational Change: Downsizing: It’s Not Easy
BUS610: Organizational Behavior
Organizational Change: Downsizing: Its’ Not Easy
There are a lot of different changes that can arise throughout the growth of a company.
There can be changes to the structure, positions revised, hours cut and people losing their jobs.
Organizational change can happen at the beginning of a business and even after a few years of success, change can happen. While building an organization to strengthen its products or services, organizational change will happen and the challenge will be to adapt to it. The following will cover the organizational change of corporate downsizing. First, building an organization to strengthen its products or services, leadership in a company will need to implement the necessary changes to improve the organizations structure. A company usually downsize as a last resort because no one wants to let go, lay off or dismiss employees, whether it’s’ a few or a lot. When organizational change is needed and its best option is downsizing, it becomes part of the long term goals of keeping the company competitive in its industry and staying open to continue serving its customers and clients.
There are organizational changes that can be small and some changes that require a major decision to be made and if management chooses to downsize, they need to prepare and when the announcement is made the appropriate actions are applied. If there are demands from customers or suppliers, downsizing could make the difference so that the company can expand or survive in its industry.
Organizational change whether, large or small, is undertaken to improve some process, procedure, product, service or outcome of interest to management. Because change involves learning and doing things differently, this stage entails providing employees with new information new behavioral models, new processes or procedures, new equipment, new
BUS610: Organizational Behavior
Organizational Change: Downsizing: Its’ Not Easy
There are a lot of different changes that can arise throughout the growth of a company.
There can be changes to the structure, positions revised, hours cut and people losing their jobs.
Organizational change can happen at the beginning of a business and even after a few years of success, change can happen. While building an organization to strengthen its products or services, organizational change will happen and the challenge will be to adapt to it. The following will cover the organizational change of corporate downsizing. First, building an organization to strengthen its products or services, leadership in a company will need to implement the necessary changes to improve the organizations structure. A company usually downsize as a last resort because no one wants to let go, lay off or dismiss employees, whether it’s’ a few or a lot. When organizational change is needed and its best option is downsizing, it becomes part of the long term goals of keeping the company competitive in its industry and staying open to continue serving its customers and clients.
There are organizational changes that can be small and some changes that require a major decision to be made and if management chooses to downsize, they need to prepare and when the announcement is made the appropriate actions are applied. If there are demands from customers or suppliers, downsizing could make the difference so that the company can expand or survive in its industry.
Organizational change whether, large or small, is undertaken to improve some process, procedure, product, service or outcome of interest to management. Because change involves learning and doing things differently, this stage entails providing employees with new information new behavioral models, new processes or procedures, new equipment, new
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