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Notes on Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow : A company 's past has clues for management that are critical to future success

Key Forces in Development

Five (5 ) key dimensions emerge as essential for building a model of organization development

Age of the organization

Size of the organization

Stages of evolution

Stages of revolution

Growth rate of the industry

Age of the Organization The life span of an organization most obvious and essential dimension for any model of development

Most basic point : management problems and principles are

rooted in time

Passage of time also contributes to the institutionalization of managerial attitudes

Size of the Organization

Company 's problems and solutions tend to change markedly as the number of employees and sales volume increase

Organization that don 't grow in size can retain many of the same management issues and practices over lengthy periods

Increased in size leads to interrelation of coordination and communication problems , emergence of new functions , multiplication of management hierarchy levels , and jobs

Stages of Evolution

Organizations growth isn 't linear

Turbulence times in the company is called period of revolution because they exhibit a serious upheaval of management practices

Critical task for management in each revolutionary period is to find a new set of organization practices that will become the basis for the managing the next period of evolutionary growth

Growth Rate of the Industry

The speed at which an organization experiences phases of evolution and revolution is closely related to the market environment of its industry...

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