This lesson explains the basic concept behind organizational change and what needs to happen before effective change is possible in a business.

In this lesson, Learn what specific factors, like competitive and ethical forces, will influence a business or company to change their organization and why.

Learn about the forces that push against organizational change among different levels of an organization and why this resistance to change happens.

Explore evolutionary and revolutionary changes in this lesson, and discover why these types of change may be necessary to support or even save a business.

This lesson discusses how companies choose effective gradual changes, ranging from the sociotechnical theory to practical organization of production teams.

In this business basics lesson, learn reasons companies and businesses employ revolutionary change, including how they use e-engineering, downsizing, and more.

In this lesson on Kurt Lewin's force-field theory of change, learn how different forces affect organizational change and how different factors maintain it.

In this lesson, learn all about John Kotter's 8-step process for leading change in an organization and how they are analogous to Kurt Lewin's change theory.

In this lesson, the birth cycle of an organization is discussed, beginning with an opportunity being seen, all the way up to the mapping out of a business plan.

Discover how the environmental niche, available resources, and other factors in a population ecology model affect an organization's birth in this lesson.