Introduction

The article depicts that the use of linear and classical approach to organizational change include various concerns that must be brought on board in order to reduce the processing time for change process so as to help top management officials to crate a new work routine and order. The article also states that various way such as traditional assumptions are the best for change as they are finite as well as one-off situation that represents the exception rather than the rule of the change process. Ten of the organizational change philosophies are to help explain the important assumptions that govern change management in organizations.

Traditional Change Agenda

The article depicts that traditional change agenda are not to be ignored in the contemporary, this is because the current world is full change management approaches that add up to the best business strategies that have impact to the change process. The case in the article denotes that traditional change process is a humanistic approach hence favorable.

The philosophy of change is noted as a way of understanding organizational change or in another way it is considered as a paradigm that is able to determine the issues that leads to perceptions about the change process that employees, stakeholders and employees has towards change.

This is the oldest change philosophy that has been used in the world and it is considered to have originated from biology. It buys its ideas from the evolution and adaptation theories used in biology. This explains why change management has evolved over time and the adaptive strategies that organizations use during change management process.

The paper defines the other philosophies such as rational philosophy; also known as strategic philosophy, institutional philosophy; it makes a revolutionary assumption, resource philosophy; this elaborates the value of the assets amid other resources that can lead to change management, contingency perspective; this is based on the organizational performance towards change, in most cases it’s the result of change. In addition, psychological philosophy; this denotes that the dimension of change is based on individuals and personal experience, the other is political philosophy; this bears its change principles from sociological stand point, it states that change is based ideology or belief of systems such as conflict amid others. The other is cultural philosophy, systems philosophy, and postmodern philosophy.

The first part of the article shows the limitations of adopting a singular philosophy when managing the change process for organizations. It is clear that that despite the fact that there are various philosophy that constitute change management process, there are others that work best in different workplaces. This therefore states that this philosophies have there individuals advantages. In addition, the article states that organizations are dynamic and evolve over time hence the change strategies or philosophies also ought to change. The article also states that future research should be able to deduce how firms or organizations are able to manage all the relationship between the approaches or the philosophies and change management process.

References

Graetz, F., & Smith, A. C. (2010). Managing organizational change: a philosophies of change approach. Journal of Change Management, 10(2), 135-154.