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This also applies to the bureaucratic dimension where senior level managers make decisions for other the other stakeholders to follow (Buhler, 2011). When adopted, they are associated with employee behaviors such as low morale, motivation, and job satisfaction that lowers productivity and increases the rate of employee turnover (Srivastava, 2005).
Organizational structures also have considerable effects on employees' adaptive behaviors and performances. Adaptive behavior refers to those that individuals use to adjust to a new behavior or situation. A study by Kanten, Kanten, and Gurlek (2015) to investigate the effect of organizational structure on employee adaptive behavior, performance, and job commitment showed that different types of organizational structures affect employee behavior in varying ways. In specific, they found that organic organizational and mechanistic structures have no effect on employee adaptive behaviors and performance. This implied that the ability of the employees to respond to new changes in their firms is relatively reduced. However, organizations with learning organizational structures enjoy the benefits of positive adaptive behaviors and performance from their employees since they are highly motivated and autonomous to take new responsibilities in the firm. Therefore, the authors recommend the need for the use of learning organizations in organic and mechanistic structures as a way of improving the employee adaptive performance and behaviors (Kanten et al., 2015). In this case, learning structure will play the mediating role in these two structures.
The type of structure within an organization also influences the attitude the employees have towards their managers and other organizational stakeholders. Schminke, Cropanzano, and Rupp (2002) hypothesized in their study that dimensions of organizational structure that included size, formalization, centralization, and complexity influence the perception of the employees towards procedural, distributive, and interactional fairness. As asserted by them, organizational structures such as learning structures where the focus is on individuals at the lower organizational levels are characterized by positive perception towards different organizational aspects used in promoting fairness. This is contrary to what is associated with organizational structures such as bureaucracy where the focus is on individuals at the high organizational levels. Therefore,…
Change Management Organizational Change Organizational change aims at ensuring that the implementation of changes in an organization is smooth and successful. Moreover, it ensures that the benefits of these changes are achievable (Burke 2010). The introduction of social media and technology has recently had much effect on business in the recent past. Accessing information by the organization is easier nowadays thus; the need for introducing changes to business to cope with the
Safeway will drastically expand its market by taking over Sobeys. It will grow to expand the entire Canadian geography as well as almost double the number of stores it owns. In addition to this Safeway will have one less competitor in the marketplace, and be larger which will make it easier to stand against the other competition in the marketplace. The decision for a company to acquire another company
Organizational Learning What is the role of learning in change processes? Pay particular attention to the ideas of Naomi Raab Learning is a galvanizing factor across all change processes in that it unifies each step in the process and over time creates an experience effect that creates greater levels of knowledge over time. The role of learning in change processes is also non-linear, a key finding of management and organizational design theorist
Organizational Change in the Public Sector This research proposal explores the feasibility of management in the public Sector as an organizational paradigm and new model in organizational development. The literature review reviews numerous journal articles that explore on the key concepts of change management strategies from a public sector project management perspective. The authors suggest that employee's participation, effective feedback across the board, and empowerment of subordinate staffs is a major
Exploring the complex web of meaning and interpretation attached to concepts like nostalgia would illuminate aspects of resistance in ways that current rationality-based theories do not. Greater attention to affect, identity, symbolism, aesthetics, and related subjects would provide a useful balance to change and innovation research. It is important to acknowledge the many sides of human beings and consider how they may figure in starting, sustaining, and resisting change. We
Org Structure An organization's structure affects many aspects of the organization. Kanter (1999) notes that people within an organization tend to operate in line with the messages that they are receiving, so structural elements do affect culture and vice versa. An organizational structure reflects how the people at the top of the organization view how the organization works. So if you have, for example, few new products, you might just work