Forces of Organizational Change

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business” (Sanborn). People can be involved in an organizational change in many different ways. Change is occurring in organization’s techniques in ways such as training, management development programs, team building and survey feedback as well as culture, and work relationships. In order to be successful, people will have to be adaptable to new situations while sustaining productivity under the existing system.

Training is designed to improve and develop an employee’s job skills. Employees may be trained for many different things such as running certain machines, taught new skills, or be advised with personal growth and development methods. (Moorhead). One type of training that is becoming more popular is training people to work in other countries. A company such as Motorola gives extensive training programs to the employees at all levels before starting an international assignment. The training includes rigorous language courses, cultural courses, and courses for the family. Most training programs use a combination of methods determined by the topic, the trainees, trainer, and the organization. “Just as any service, training is effective only when it’s used for the right purpose” (Borinstein). A major problem of training programs is transferring people. Often an employee learns a new management technique, but finds it easier to go back to the old technique. As stated before, training employee’s to start an international business is a essential part of change, process and it is important to make the achieve the goal of the training program.

In a management development program,...

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...wards the organization, the work, the leadership, and other topics on the questionnaire. The results from the questionnaire are always to remind anonymous.

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