An evaluation of the strengths and limitations of a rational and strategic approach to organizational change

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

7 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/18/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Sociology

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Summary :

Introduction
Model-Ideal conceptualization of organizational goal-directed-activity
Approaches to strategy and organizational change
1. Classical strategy and planned organizational change
2. A Critical Theoretical (CT) perspective on strategy and organizational change
3. Postmodernism and strategy/organizational change
The strengths and limitations of classical, emergent, social-rational, and postmodern rational/strategic modes in organizational change
1. The classical mode
2. The emergent mode
3. The socio-rational mode
4. The postmodern (rhetorical) mode
Some (additional) conclusions
Bibliography

Abstract

Following the brief introduction of a model-ideal conceptualization of organizational Goal-Directed-Activity, and the definition within the perspective defined by this model of such terms like 'rational (organizational) action system', 'strategy', and 'organizational change', the first part of this essay presents a non-evaluative summary of a selection of distinct approaches to organizational change. Various approaches to strategy are similarly addressed in an attempt to register and explore some of the links that have been identified by a number of authors between positions on strategy reviewed and corresponding approaches to organizational change.

The second part, bypassing the rather common practice of partitioning the set of organizational change approaches into largely non-overlapping rational and non rational, strategic and non strategic, subsets, identifies a number of distinct rational and/or strategic Modes, associates them with the approaches to organizational change reviewed in the first part, and attempts an integrated appraisal of the distinctive strengths and limitations such diverse Modes confer to the approaches to change that invoke and utilize them.