Change In Organizations. Chapter 6. Creating Long-Term Organizational Change,

Abstract

This chapter is about the institutionalization of organizational change. It is concerned with the persistence of organizational change. Lewin (1951) describes change in terms of three processes unfreezing, moving, and refreezing. Institutionalization is concerned with the process of refreezing. After a new policy or program is introduced into an organization, we plan to focus on factors that affect its persistence. A whole series of questions underlies this problem statement: What does institutionalization or persistence mean? How do we describe different degrees of institutionalization or persistence mean? How do we describe different degrees of institutionalization? What critical processes affect institutionalization? What are the critical predictors? These questions serve to organize this discussion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123016

Entities

People

  • James W. Dean Jr
  • Paul S. Goodman

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Case Studies
  • Cognition
  • Cooperation
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of State
  • Frequency
  • Identification
  • Labor
  • Literature Surveys
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Productivity
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences

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  • Education

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  • Business Analytics
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design