Organizational Behavior

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 1
Organizational Behavior
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Introduction
Change in any organization affects the running of day to day activity. The sessions helped in
understanding various internal and external factors can lead to change, and how resistance to
change can be properly managed. Analyzing internal and external forces are key to
understanding forces that drive organizational change. The course has also extensively talked
about the approaches and models which lead to organizational change. This approaches are
crucial in assessing regulatory interventions and techniques for developmental change. Change
management and theories of planned and unplanned changes taking place in the organization are
important to managers in understanding important factors necessary to successfully implement
change to ensure a smooth transition (Hari Gopal, 2017).
The need for organizational change is influenced by global markets and competition,
environmental factors, threats, and opportunities. PEST factors also lead to the need for change
in organizations, such factors include; political factors, like technological, government policies,
economic, environmental and social factors. From my research, when change is implemented it
has an impact in organizations; they affect how management needs to operate, the structure of
the organization and how the formal subsystems ought to run. Consequently, it is important that
the structure of employees is also changed, together with the processes and the strategies used
(David, 2018).
I have learned that resistance to change is shared amongst many organizations, and most of the
time it does not occur smoothly. People are usually resistant because they have a comfort zone in
what they are used to doing; mostly due to anxiety and the fear of what is not known due to
ambiguity (Collins, 2015). Therefore, change management systems are important in enabling all
the stakeholders to adopt new systems, mission and vision. The coordination of change