ORGANISATIOAL CHANGE - ESSAY.

ORGANISATIOAL
CHANGE - ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TITLE: The ability of organisations to adapt their strategies to an ever-changing, and
sometimes volatile, business environment is critical. Therefore, how can organisations predict,
meet and gain competitive advantage via emergent and planned change initiatives’?..........1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
In the modern era, the business environment is acknowledged to be uncertain, turbulent
and hyper competitive. In this relation, the decision making parties are often found to be
struggling to get stability while unpredictability of making use of planned change initiatives as
well as techniques (Deschamps and et. al., 2016). This is done while having comprehensibility of
the requirements for flexibility and agility to exercise emergent changes with a view to ensure
sustainability of the firm in market place for a long time (Michel, 2014). Taking this into
account, the following essay takes into account the planned organisational change methods in
contrast to emergent developed as a result of extensive rivalry as well as economic
destabilization.
MAIN BODY
TITLE: The ability of organisations to adapt their strategies to an ever-changing, and sometimes
volatile, business environment is critical. Therefore, how can organisations predict, meet
and gain competitive advantage via emergent and planned change initiatives’?
Companies are largely coming aware of their connectivity with one another and to the
international environment. Owing to the inflating complexities of global business context,
corporate change initiatives are required to be reanalysed (Za, Ghiringhelli and Virili, 2020).
With a view to ensure sustainability within such complexities and turbulence, it is required by
companies to maintain a balance in between the structural, conventional and prearranged change
methods with the uncertainty and occurrence of new approaches with passage of time (Bourne,
2015). In the modern era, business operations are being conducted on a global scale at a rapid
pace. This is why the changes that occur within the business environment become unpredictable
and unmanageable by the organisation pertaining to corporate sector. The only thing that can be
predicted in future context is that it would be more complex, fast paced and diverse in terms of
cultures (Nast, 2020). As per a study conducted by IBM, it can be said that companies now look
upon themselves as being less stable and enduring (Between planned and emergent change:
decision maker’s perceptions of managing change in organisations, 2019). As a result of this,
they have become more “work in progress” as opposed to the constant and rapid changes taking
place within the confines of business environment. The idea of change being continuous has
become apparent with the passage of time. However, it is still seen by practitioners as disruptive
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