Episodic change - created from Mind Map

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Metaphor/Nature of organization

Analytic framework to understand organizational change process

Ideal organization

Intervention theory

Change agent

Dense

Tightly coupled interdependencies among subuntis

Efficiency as core value

Preoccupation with shortrun adaption

Constraints on action in the form of the incisiable hand of institutionalization

Powerful norms embedded in strong subcultures

Imitation as a major motivation for change

1/3 important processes: Inertia: the inability to change as fast as the environment

2/3 Triggering of change

3/3 replacement

Environment

performance

Characteristics of TM

Structure

Strategy

1) What is A? 2) What will be not-A? 3? A--> not-A

Semistructures between orderand disorder, with only some features being prescribed

Intentional links between present projects and future probes --> reduces discontinuity

When and Where

How

change agent deliberately and consciously sets out to change

1/3 Unfreezing

2/3 Transition

3/3 Refreeze

disconfirmation of expectation

induction of learning anxiety

provision of psychological safety

cognitive restructuring; words are redifined

concepts more broadly interpreted

new standards of judgement and evaluation are learned

Create supportive social norms

make change congruent with personality

Prime mover who creates change

Relies on system theory

Organization as organism

complex non-linear systems