Organizational Orientation to Change

Running Head : Responses to Change

Organizational And Individual Response To Change

August 12 , 2010

Response to Change

There are two orientations to change , Seismic and Kaizen . Among the two orientations to change , my organization 's approach could best be described as Kaizen rather than Seismic . Seismic change refers to big changes that are done all at once . They are mainly originated from the top level management and passed down to the employees . This is together with the time of implementation that it is expected to take

Kaizen on the other

hand is change that is gradual and takes a much longer time to implement . The other variation to this is known as the Kaizen events , which mean very rapid changes that are made over a very short period of time . The changes are simple and easy to implement (Manos , 2007

The organization in which I work introduces changes over a long time Before change is implemented everyone in the company is usually aware that there will be a change coming through . This is so because the company usually starts by conducting a research in order to gauge the feelings of the employees and therefore take into consideration the results obtained in the research

Most of the changes are usually successful and this does well to give employees a positive attitude towards change rather than a negative one The best example for this kind of change is when the company was rolling over to the use of business intelligence (BI ) system...