Organizational Change: Planned and Unplanned

MGT/331 Organizational Behavior
12 October 2003
Organizational Change: Planned or Unplanned
In the fast-paced world of today’s business, change, whether it is planned or unplanned, is inevitable. How an organization handles the change will either make them or break them. The following paper will look at the new way versus the old way of handling change within an organization.
Planned changed is an effort to move an organization to a higher level. Unplanned change happens when pressures of external factors are so overwhelming that resistance to change is unavoidable. Having some guidelines for implementing change will assist in the success of the change process (Axelrod 1).
The way organizations have been approaching change for the past 20 years is no longer producing the desired results the organization is hoping for. As stated in the article, Terms of engagement, by author Richard Axelrod, “The current management paradigm actually increases bureaucracy, ...