PART ONE Understanding change Perspectives on change The ethics of organizational change Planned change and its critics Strategic change Building and developing competitive advantage 3 39 73 11 1 147 CHAPTER 1 Perspectives on change 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Perspectives on change 1.2.1 Modernity‚ progress‚ and change 1.2.2 Pathways to change 1.3 Structural-functional change: changing structures and functions 1.3.1 An organization is a complex whole 1.3.2 Structural theory 1.4 Multiple constituencies:
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Key Concepts | Key notions/ ideas/ points | Comments | InertiaWhy is it difficult to change? | To understand why there is organisational inertia and why it is difficult to change‚ it is necessary to first identify them so that they can be individually addressed. This can be done by categorising the inertias identified into ‘socio-technical’‚ ‘cultural’‚ ‘political’ and ‘economical’ with the ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ scenarios mapped out for each category. (refer to Appendix A for notes on the various
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Boeing is the largest aerospace company worldwide‚ it stood for over a century taking the humans and technology one step closer to a life changing development that humanity ever dreamt of. The industry of airplanes changed the traveling path people used to take‚ and took fighting for the country’s safety on another level. Starting with airplanes filled with people and others filled with sources to protect the country‚ now reaching the continuous process of upgrading rockets‚ and spaceships to take
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DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION OF STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA AND DYSCALCULIA IN THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM BY ABUBAKAR SALIHU MADA KADUNA POLYTECHNIC‚ KADUNA Abstract: Dyslexia is a learning disability that manifest itself as a difficulty with the visual notation of speech or written language‚ particularly with reading‚ while dyscalculia is a learning difficulty in which a person has unusual difficulty in solving mathematical problems and grasping mathematical concepts‚ memory of
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1. Introduction Change management is one of the central topics of organizational management. However‚ as to the context of change management‚ there are controversial opinions concerning whether the core of management remains the same in nature (Crockford‚ 1986). Some argue that despite the different contents and forms of change‚ the nature of change remains the same. Those who have this opinion insist that change itself is not the real problem but the resistance of change is the real one. According
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MBA –H4010 Organisational Development And Change ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE UNIT – I LEARNING OBJECTIVES The student is expected to learn the following concepts after going through this unit. 1. Change 3. Planned Change 5. Unplanned Change 2. 4. 6. Stimulating Forces Change Agents Lewin’s Three Step Model The change means the alteration of status quo or making things different. It may refer to any alteration which occurs in the overall work environment of an organization
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Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups “For fiscal year 2008‚ Medicare adopted a severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group system called Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups or MS-DRGs. This was the most drastic revision to the DRG system in 24 years.” (Schraffenberger‚ 2016‚ p. 702) MS-DRGs had a single goal to which was to improve the ability to recognize the severity of a patient’s illness for inpatient hospitals. Within this system hospitals with the sickest patients
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Questionable Aspects of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder Few psychiatric diagnoses have garnered as much controversy as that of Dissociative Identity Disorder‚ or DID. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) defines the disorder‚ formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder‚ as the existence of “two or more distinct identities within the individual” (as cited by Elzinga‚ van Dyck‚ & Spinhoven‚ 1998). Elzinga et
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Nature of Change “Organisations are never static‚ something about them is always changing.” 1. Change is endemic and continuous 2. It doesn’t occur in a vacuum it always effects someone or something 3. Change can be evolutionary or revolutionary 4. It is a critical aspect of effective management 5. The pace of change is increasing Stability is no longer a central management goal The Nature Of Organisational Change 1. There is no ‘one best way’ to change 2. Change is context-specific
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Toxoplasma Gondii (T. Gondii) was first observed in rodents in 1908. Then in 1932 it was found to be in humans. T. Gondii is a disease that plagues the immune deficient because those with a healthy immune system are able to easily fight the parasite off. It has been estimated that nearly 60 millions Americans are infected with the parasite‚ however the bulk of them are completely unaware because they have no symptoms. One of the most interesting things about the disease is that it is found worldwide
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