Evolution and revolution as organizations grow
Growing organization move through 5 phases of development, each of which contains a relatively calm period of growth that ends with a management crisis. Each developmental phase is strongly influenced by the previous one. Thus by knowing an organization’s development history it is possible to be more prepared for the next developmental crisis. These crises can be used in order to achieve future growth.
Evolution- long periods of growth with no major organizational problem
Revolution- crisis periods, where companies need to find solutions to newly occurred organizational problems
Phase1: Creativity
This developmental phase is a period of evolution. At its birth stage an
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This is when the second revolution occurs: the autonomy crisis: Lower-level employees find themselves restricted. They feel being torn between following procedures and taking initiative on their own. So lower level managers demand more autonomy.
The solution adopted by many companies is to move toward greater delegation. Yet it is difficult for top managers to give up responsibility. And lower-level managers are not accustomed for making decisions for themselves. As a result many companies struggle during this revolutionary period, because many lower level employees leave the organization since they stick to centralized methods.
Phase 3: Delegation
The next evolution period evolves from the successful application of decentralized organization structure.
Much greater responsibility is given to lower-level managers.
Bonuses are used to stimulate motivation
Top executives manage by exception based on periodic reports from the field
Management focuses on new gains, which can be lined up beside other decentralized units
However a serious problem eventually occur: the control crisis: when top executives feel that they are loosing control over a highly diversified field operation because of autonomous field managers.
In order to move ahead companies need to find a new solution in the use of special coordination techniques.
Phase 4: Coordination
During this phase the evolutionary period occurs by the use of formal systems for acheveing greater
The company has been undertaking partnerships with others in a way to advance new technologies
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• Resistance by General Managers who may fear losing their autonomy because of a corporate mandated program.
The communication between these two stages will be still stayed formal as managers accept more power with key choice. The third phase; delegation will occur when “more responsibility is given to managers and employees to accomplish organizational goals and their work” (Weiss, 2.2). In this phase the bonuses and profit centers are created and managers stop micro-managing and will move into larger market faster and begin to innovate.
At Komtek, there was a lack of trust for a long time; there was a separation between the floor workers and the supervisors. The two sides weren’t always on same page when it came to negotiations. Since there was distrust in the company, KomTek decided to give responsibility not only in the supervisors, but the floor workers’ as well. The supervisors decided to put trust in their workers and give them higher-up responsibilities; the floor workers showed visiting customer’s around and answered their questions, instead of the supervisors. KomTek had management stop making all of the decisions and shifted the responsibility to the workers on the shop floor to make decisions. Essentially, KomTek paid little attention to titles and more attention
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