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Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure
By:
Brian G. Nordmann

August 24, 2004

With every business that wants to grow and be profitable comes the inevitable, and that is change. Change is part of any organization be it a religious, educational, familial or our work environment. Without change we would not have walked on the moon, broken Olympic records or even have on-line classrooms. Change is not the challenge; it is managing that change as individuals that may be detrimental to the organization.
Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist, developed a change model that can help us understand the necessity for change and how to manage it a little better. Kreitner – Kinicki describes Lewin's change model as (2003) "a three-stage model of planned change which explained how to initiate, manage, and stabilize the change process. The three stages are unfreezing, changing and refreezing." (p 678) The unfreezing encourages the replacement of old actions with new action desired by management.......


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