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Organizational Structure Simulation Analysis Team A ORG/502 - Human Relations and Organizational Behavior Prof. L.J. Sanna November 4, 2004 Organizational Structure To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. -- Winston Churchill Change often engenders perceptions of ambiguity and insecurity, leading to feelings of anxiety and fear. These feelings underlie the numerous cases of resistance encountered in organizations when change is introduced. Most instances of change in an organization have both a technical and a social aspect. "Lewin conceptualized change as a process with three phases: (1) Unfreezing - behavior that increases the receptivity of the client system to a possible change in the distribution and balance of social forces; (2) moving - altering the magnitude, direction, or number of driving and resisting forces, consequently shifting the equilibrium to a new level; and (3) refreezing- reinforcing the new distribution of forces, thereby maintaining and stabilizing the new social equilibrium." (Zand, Dale E. &...

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