DOWNSIZING

Systemic Nature of the Organization

Systemic Nature of the Organization

Introduction

Significant organizational changes, for example, when the change of its overall strategy for success, adds or deletes a primary partition or practice, or wants to change the nature, in which it operates. It also occurs when an organization develops through different life cycles as people should flourish through life cycles. For organizations to develop, they often have to undergo significant change at different stages of their development. That is why the topic of organizational change and development has been widely disseminated in the communications business, organization, leadership and management (Wilkinson, 1999).

The corporation ' Phil Corporation Ltd. ' (Phil) was incorporated in the year 1984 and had been a chief performer in the field of the business of photography. The company wants to undergo a vast downsizing course in which it has to take main steps to cut its surplus workforce and thus reorganize the corporation. By the end of this month, by the identification of the surplus amount of workforce in each department, the company believes to start the downsizing process. The company has identified 140 surplus employees out of the total of 425 from the two plants. It is believed that when the news will start spreading and making rounds of the corporation it would be generating an immense deal of disturbances amongst the workers and would be distressing their moral.

This would be the time when the labor union would be starting to strengthen to oppose the prejudice, if any, caused by the administration towards them (Van, 2005).

Thesis Statement

As the sales of the company are declining therefore, the company needs to downsize its redundant employees from the company. The downsizing would have an adverse impact if the decision is not made efficiently.

Overview of Organizational Change

From a variety of different settings, a change in organizational can be seen. On this topic, thousands of articles were researched by Van De Ven and Poole (2005) and as many as twenty different theoretical points of view were identified. Nevertheless, researchers from the organization in general have characterized that the occurring of change is in two primary ways: the evolution form and revolution form (Gersick, 2001; Haveman, 2003; & Tushman, 1991). The analysis of a continuous process that requires over time and the evolution of a slight change were in the viewpoint of the local amplification of the theme. Tushman (1991) is that it is the initial phase. An order continuous, evolutionary change in a reasonable and safe place, and as to the organizational structure, environment, standards and resources, step by step, the results change.

Much of this industry's history is portrayed by the organization in its first order to make incremental changes, although comparatively constant and retain their present composition, structure and cultural change. According to other researchers, this change is seen as a revolutionary process, interspersed between sporadic events stable, long-term inertia, and involve relatively few changes were based. This process is known as the second phase of transition or ...