11 Changing Organizations

Stress, Conflict, and Virtuality

Target Skill

Organizational Change Skill:the ability to modify an organization in order to enhance its contribution to reaching company goals

Objectives

To help build my organizational change skill, when studying this chapter, I will attempt to acquire:

  1. Fundamental principles of changing an organization

  2. Insights about factors to consider when changing an organization

  3. An appreciation for the relationship between change and stress

  4. Insights concerning how to handle conflict as a factor related to organizational change

  5. Knowledge about virtuality as a vehicle for organizational change

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