Understanding Transformational Change

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RANU PARMAR(41)

PRADIPNA LODH(36)

RISHAB GOEL(43)

NISHANT SINGH

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A shift in the business culture of anorganisation resulting from a change in theunderlying strategy and process that theorganisation has used in the past.Atransformational change is designed to beorganisation wide and is enacted over aperiod of time.

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Triggered by Environmental and InternalDisruptions

Systemic and Revolutionary Change

Driven by Senior Executives and LineManagement

Continuous Learning and Change

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Three kinds of

interventions agaist

transformational change

Culture Change

Self Design

Organisational learning

and Knowledge

management

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BasicAssumptions

Values

NormsArtifacts

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Self-design change is a strategy that involvesan ongoing series of designing andimplementing activities carried out bymanagers and employees at all level of the

firms.

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Systemic change process altering mostfeatures of the organization

Process is ongoing, never finished—continuous improvement and change

Learning as You Go—

on-site innovation Need support of multiple stakeholders All levels of the organization adopt new

strategies and change behaviors

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Accquiring knowledge

Diaognising Valuing

Laying the Foundation

Designing

Implementing

and Assessing



Organization Learning interventionsemphasize the structures and socialprocesses that enable employees and teamsto learn and share knowledge

Knowledge Learning focuses on the tools andtechniques that enable organizations tocollect, organize, and translate informationinto useful knowledge

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Generating Knowledge

Organizing Knowledge

Distributing Knowledge

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Cummings & Worley, 8e(c)2005 Thomson/South-Western

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StructureInformation

SystemsHR PracticesCultureLeadership

DiscoveryInventionProductionGeneralization

TacitExplicit



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Structures emphasize teamwork, informationsharing, empowerment

Information systems facilitate rapidacquisition and sharing of complexinformation to manage knowledge forcompetitive advantage

Human resources reinforce new skills andknowledge

Organization culture encourages innovation Leaders model openness and freedom to try

new things while communicating a compellingvision



Single loop learning◦ Most common form of learning◦ Aimed at adapting and improving the status quo

Double loop learning◦ Generative learning◦

Questions and changes existing assumptions andconditions

Deuterolearning◦ Learning how to learn◦ Learning how to improve single and double loop

learning

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