Learning Organizations, Organizational Change and Resistance to Change: A Typology Proposal

Abstract

Any individual, group, organization or society must cope with and adapt itself to the change going around its environment. Even though it is impossible to prevent change, generally these actors may try to resist it. Managing the change by preventing the resistance to it, is an important success factor the leaders and the followers should cope with.

The leaders and the followers are the main characters of the change and resistance. In this study, the main dynamics of organizational learning, organizational change, the literature of organizational change, and contemporary approaches were discussed. A general evaluation about organizational change and resistance which are the results of organizational learning and learning organizations has been made. A typology proposal in which the roles of the leaders and followers on change and resistances are underlined at the last part of this study.

Keywords

• Organizational Learning, Change, Resistance To Change, Ideal Change, Coercive Change, Revolutionary Change, Entropic Change

Öğrenen Örgütler, Örgütsel Değişim ve Değişime Direnç: Bir Tipoloji Önerisi

Abstract

Tüm bireyler, gruplar, organizasyonlar veya toplumlar çevrelerinde meydana gelen değişim ile başa çıkmayı ve değişime uyum sağlamayı öğrenmek zorundadırlar. Her ne kadar söz konusu değişimi engellemek mümkün olmasa dâhi, genel olarak değişime maruz kalan tüm bu aktörler değişime direnç gösterirler. Değişim sürecini yönetebilmek ve değişime direnci engelleyebilmek özellikle liderler ve değişimi talep eden takipçileri için önemli bir husustur.

Liderler ve takipçileri değişimin ve değişime direncin ana unsurlarıdır. Bu çalışmada; öncelikle organizasyonel öğrenme ve örgütsel değişimin kuramsal çerçevesi, kavramlara ilişkin yazın taraması ve güncel yaklaşımlar tartışılmıştır. Daha sonra örgütsel öğrenme ve öğrenen örgüt olgusunun sonucu olarak ortaya çıkan örgütsel değişim ve değişime dirençle ilgili genel bir değerlendirme yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın son bölümünde ise örgütsel değişim ve değişime direnç konusunda bir tipoloji önerisi sunulmuştur.

Keywords

• Örgütsel Öğrenme, Değişim, Değişime Direnç, İdeal Değişim, Zorlayıcı Değişim, Yok Olucu Değişim, Devrimsel Değişim

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