Organizational Change & Decision-Making

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.

This lesson discusses four different approaches that organizations can take to survive, including the advantages and disadvantages for a company's growth.

This lesson takes a look the ultimate goal of these strategies, as well as the institutional theory of organizational growth, discussing its outcomes.

This lesson discusses each of the phases in the Greiner curve, how they develop, and what crises arise that shape the next stage of organizational growth.

This lesson discusses the difference between simple profit and how it relates to a company's profitability, which reveals the true health of a business.

In this lesson, discover what internal and external forces can act on an organization or business to make it fall into its decline and eventual death.

In this lesson, learn about the stages of organizational decline, how they happen, and what can be done to try to save what it left of the organization.

This lesson introduces the differences between programmed and non-programmed decisions and how they should be approached in an organization.

This lesson discusses the rational decision-making model, its specific characteristics, and why, in practice, it is impossible to follow in an organization.

This lesson covers the differences between the Carnegie model and the rational model of decision-making, and how that applies to an organization.

This lesson illustrates the incrementalist model of decision-making and discusses its potential results on organizations for reducing errors in their changes.

In this lesson, get a basic rundown of the decision-making conflicts that arise from cognitive biases and learn about the challenge of cognitive dissonance.

Learn where the garbage can model of organizational decision making got its name and the problems it illustrates with an organization and its managers.

This business lesson illustrates the causes of the illusion of control and how it can ultimately lead to ineffective decisions that do more harm than good.

Discover how the frequency and representativeness biases occur and how they influence the organizational decision-making processes within a company.

This lesson covers an illustration of and the reasoning behind the escalation of commitment and how it affects organizational decision-making.

In this lesson, learn the difference between these two biases, how they can affect relationships in an organization, and how they influence decision-making.