Organizational Change

Purpose / Rationale
This paper will explore some of the basic principles of organizational change. An example of where organizational change was used within an organization will be looked at followed by a summary / conclusion that will incorporate organizational change principles as it applies to the example used.
Patterns of Change
As Josef Schumpeter observed, industrial economies evolve in waves characterized by how significant new technologies find their way into the economic system. Consider the pattern of technological innovation that has marked four great periods of change in the industrial era:
1. The 1830s. The spread of the railroad and factory production practices coincides with the opening of the West in the United States and tremendous social dislocation.
2. The 1880s and 1890s. Telephone and communications technology enter the economy—along with deep and sustained unemployment that reached 18 percent in 1893.
3. The 1930s. Commercial airlines...