July 9, 2012

Managing episodic and continuous change

Introduction Organizational change is the transitioning of an organization from its current state towards a desired future state (Palmer, Dunfin & Akin, 2006). Weick & quinn (1999) in their article titled “ Organizational Change and Development“ discuss organizational change as either episodic or continuous. This distinction between episodic organizational change and continuous organizational change provides different ways to understand change and present different implications for implementing organizational change. Episodic organizational...
Posted by Vaishak V. Suvarna on Monday, July 09, 2012