ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES IN WORKPLACE
Ome-Egeonu Allwell and Samuel, Kinikanwo
Department of Sociology
University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
E-mail: alome1955@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This work is premised on organizational change, prospects and challenges trying to examine the different concepts of organizational change and the effects these changes have on workers and organization as a whole. It examines the circumstances that reduce change, the possible reasons for resistance to change and since change seems inevitable, it suggests ways of accommodating change in order to achieve organizational effectiveness/performance. In what follows then, it is worthy of remarks that this paper is a descriptive work. It therefore adopts content wise a sociological framework on business.
Key words: Organizational change, management of change
INTRODUCTION
It is an obvious historical truism that a man has always lived in a world which has been subjected to change. However, until the era of industrial revolution, the pace of change has been slow as many organizations existed almost in a state of calcified performance. With the advent of industrial revolution, knowledge and technology expanded tremendously thus, demanding for a thorough understanding of the concept of organization. Granted that there several definitions to read more>>
Ome-Egeonu Allwell and Samuel, Kinikanwo
Department of Sociology
University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
E-mail: alome1955@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This work is premised on organizational change, prospects and challenges trying to examine the different concepts of organizational change and the effects these changes have on workers and organization as a whole. It examines the circumstances that reduce change, the possible reasons for resistance to change and since change seems inevitable, it suggests ways of accommodating change in order to achieve organizational effectiveness/performance. In what follows then, it is worthy of remarks that this paper is a descriptive work. It therefore adopts content wise a sociological framework on business.
Key words: Organizational change, management of change
INTRODUCTION
It is an obvious historical truism that a man has always lived in a world which has been subjected to change. However, until the era of industrial revolution, the pace of change has been slow as many organizations existed almost in a state of calcified performance. With the advent of industrial revolution, knowledge and technology expanded tremendously thus, demanding for a thorough understanding of the concept of organization. Granted that there several definitions to read more>>
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