{"id":940,"date":"2019-04-26T17:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=940"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T22:41:24","slug":"introduction-to-change-management","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/chapter\/introduction-to-change-management\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Change Management","rendered":"Introduction to Change Management"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Discuss change management as it functions in organizational behavior<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4052\/2019\/04\/26210720\/ross-findon-303091-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"A neon sign with the word change\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/>Why is change management a topic in organizational behavior? Organizations need to be able to adapt to different market conditions and customer needs\u2014and it seems as though those kinds of changes are happening every day. When an organization isn\u2019t flexible, another business will swoop in and take those customers\u2014and those profits\u2014away.\r\n\r\nBut change management is definitely a behavior. Organizations don\u2019t have to change\u2014people have to change. And that\u2019s what change management is all about.\r\n\r\nManagers at an organization need to recognize problems as they occur and adjust their processes accordingly to solve for them. Good change management skills make this an easier process.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0Discuss change management as it functions in organizational behavior<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4052\/2019\/04\/26210720\/ross-findon-303091-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"A neon sign with the word change\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/>Why is change management a topic in organizational behavior? Organizations need to be able to adapt to different market conditions and customer needs\u2014and it seems as though those kinds of changes are happening every day. When an organization isn\u2019t flexible, another business will swoop in and take those customers\u2014and those profits\u2014away.<\/p>\n<p>But change management is definitely a behavior. Organizations don\u2019t have to change\u2014people have to change. And that\u2019s what change management is all about.<\/p>\n<p>Managers at an organization need to recognize problems as they occur and adjust their processes accordingly to solve for them. Good change management skills make this an easier process.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-940\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Change Management. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Freedom Learning Group. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Specific attribution<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The most powerful word. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Ross Findon. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Unsplash. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/mG28olYFgHI\">https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/mG28olYFgHI<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Unsplash License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Change Management\",\"author\":\"Freedom Learning Group\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc-attribution\",\"description\":\"The most powerful word\",\"author\":\"Ross Findon\",\"organization\":\"Unsplash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/mG28olYFgHI\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"Unsplash License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"51c87782-b30b-4030-8b98-0b63c2eeb30b","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-940","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":36,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/940\/revisions\/1651"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/36"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/940\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}