What are the organizational forces that make an organization necessary to change?
Forces that lead to Organizational Change
Change is a law of nature; we live in a dynamic world where nothing remains static. Everything around us keeps on changing.
Organization change refers to the alteration of structural relationships and role of the people in the organization. It is largely structural in nature. These changes may be pressurized by internal or external forces, may affect only one or all the levels and department or may be related to the organizational structure (hierarchy), people, technology, working or social environment, etc.
The key internal and external forces that forces organization to change are explained briefly.
Internal Forces
A force induced from the organizational itself is known as internal forces. The key internal forces are explained briefly.
- Goal Change: Change in organizational goals makes it necessary for organization to change.
- Sequential change: Every organizational change requires readjustments, sequential change and supportive change. For example, creation of new department may cause the appointment of some new managerial position, which in turn may necessitate reallocation of authority, responsibility and duties of the concerned department.
- Employees pressure: Every increasing demand of employees for better job security and job satisfaction, better safety and welfare, congenial working environment, higher wages and perquisites, participation in managerial process and more authority and power also precipitate changes in the organization structure and pattern.
External forces
Organization has no control over external forces. Some of the common external forces are listed below;
- Economic forces: It includes Economic condition of country Inflation and exchange rate
Income distribution and resource availability Govt. liberalization and privatization policy.
- Market force: It includes Growth of electronic commerce
Work force diversity in terms of culture, gender, age skills and professionalism etc.
- Technological force: It includes
Sophisticated information technology, robotics, faster and cheaper computers Innovation and experimentation
Reshaping of jobs arising from new developments in technology
4. Socio-culture force: It includes
Delayed marriage, people attitude toward society People's norms and value toward society
5. Political force: It includes
The change in political forces collapse of Soviet Union, reunification of Germany, collapse of Saddam Hussain regime in Iraq.
Increasing activating pressure groups.
