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chapter 16
Organizational Change, Development and Innovation
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Business
Undergraduate 4
04/16/2013

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unfreezing
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• The recognition that some current state of affairs is unsatisfactory
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change
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• The implementation of a program or plan to move the organization or its members to a more satisfactory state
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refreezing
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• The condition that exists when newly developed behaviours, attitudes or structures become an enduring part of the organization
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organizational learning
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• The process through which an organization acquires, develops, and transfers knowledge throughout the organization
o Through knowledge acquisition or knowledge development
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learning organization
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• An organization that has systems and processes for creating, acquiring and transferring knowledge to modify and change its behaviour to reflect new knowledge and insights
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diagnosis
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• The systematic collection of information relevant to impending organizational change
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change agents
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• Experts in the application of behavioural science knowledge to organizational diagnosis and change
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resistance
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• Overt or covert failure by organizational members to support a change effort
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Organizational Development
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• A planned, ongoing effort to change organizations to be more effective and more human
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team building
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• An effort to increase the effectiveness of work teams by improving interpersonal processes, goal clarification, and role clarification
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survey feedback
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• The collection of data from organizational members and the provision of feedback about the results
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TQM
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• A systematic attempt to achieve continuous improvement in the quality of an organization’s products or services
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reengineering
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• The radical redesign of organizational processes to achieve major improvements in such factors as time, cost, quality or service
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organizational processes
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• Activities or work that have to be accomplished to create outputs that internal or external customers value
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innovation
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• The processes of developing and implementing new ideas in an organization
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creativity
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• The production of novel but potentially useful ideas
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idea champions
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• People who recognize an innovative idea and guide it through to implementation
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gatekeepers
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• People who span organizational boundaries to import new information, translate it for local use, and disseminate it
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diffusion
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• The process by which innovations move through an organization
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