"Change management (sometimes abbreviated as CM) is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change."
This subfield focuses on the process of managing and implementing change within organizations, including strategies and tactics for managing resistance to change.
Change Management: The study of how organizations manage change processes, including planning, communication, and evaluation.
Organizational Leadership: The study of how leaders shape organizational culture, shape relationships between members, and affect organizational performance.
Organizational Culture: The study of shared values, beliefs, and norms within an organization that shape how employees behave and interact with one another.
Communication: The study of the various communication channels within an organization, including formal and informal channels, and how communication affects organizational performance.
Power and Politics: The study of how power and politics shape organizational behavior, including the distribution of power, the exercise of power, and the impact of power on organizational outcomes.
Organizational Behavior: The study of how individuals and groups behave within an organizational context, including motivation, communication, and decision-making.
Organizational Design: The study of how organizations are structured and how that structure affects organizational behavior and performance.
Organizational Learning: The study of how organizations learn from experience and use that learning to improve performance and achieve strategic goals.
Systems Thinking: The study of how different parts of an organization are interconnected and how changes to one part of the system can impact other parts of the system.
Performance Management: The study of how organizations measure and achieve their goals, including the use of performance metrics, feedback systems, and incentive structures.
Structural Change: Changes to an organization's physical or operational structure.
Process Change: Changes to an organization's business processes or workflow.
Cultural Change: Changes to an organization's values and beliefs.
Technological Change: Changes to an organization's technology or systems.
Personnel Change: Changes to an organization's staffing or workforce.
Strategic Change: Changes to an organization's overall strategy or direction.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Changes resulting from mergers, acquisitions, or other forms of restructuring.
Downsizing: Changes resulting from the reduction of an organization's workforce or resources.
Transformational Change: Changes that fundamentally alter an organization's identity, purpose, or operations.
"It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organization."
"Organizational change management (OCM) considers the full organization and what needs to change, while change management may be used solely to refer to how people and teams are affected by such organizational transition."
"It deals with many different disciplines, from behavioral and social sciences to information technology and business solutions."
"As change management becomes more necessary in the business cycle of organizations, it is beginning to be taught as its own academic discipline at universities."
"There are a growing number of universities with research units dedicated to the study of organizational change."
"One common type of organizational change may be aimed at reducing outgoing costs while maintaining financial performance, in an attempt to secure future profit margins."
"In a project-management context, the term "change management" may be used as an alternative to change control processes."
"Drivers of change may include the ongoing evolution of technology, internal reviews of processes, crisis response, customer demand changes, competitive pressure, acquisitions and mergers, and organizational restructuring."
"It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organization."
"Organizational change management (OCM) considers the full organization and what needs to change."
"It deals with many different disciplines, from behavioral and social sciences to information technology and business solutions."
"As change management becomes more necessary in the business cycle of organizations, it is beginning to be taught as its own academic discipline at universities."
"One common type of organizational change may be aimed at reducing outgoing costs while maintaining financial performance, in an attempt to secure future profit margins."
"In a project-management context, the term "change management" may be used as an alternative to change control processes wherein changes to the scope of a project are formally introduced and approved."
"Drivers of change may include the ongoing evolution of technology, internal reviews of processes, crisis response, customer demand changes, competitive pressure, acquisitions and mergers, and organizational restructuring."
"It includes methods that redirect or redefine the use of resources, business process, budget allocations, or other modes of operation that significantly change a company or organization."
"Organizational change management (OCM) considers the full organization and what needs to change, while change management may be used solely to refer to how people and teams are affected by such organizational transition."
"It deals with many different disciplines, from behavioral and social sciences to information technology and business solutions."
"There are a growing number of universities with research units dedicated to the study of organizational change."