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Is Your Organization Prepared to Manage Tsunami Change?

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The accumulative and accelerated rate of change organizations are dealing with in today's times of non-stop and unpredictable change and the powerful wave of changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have had an overwhelming, Tsunami Change effect on many organizations. The result can be organizational chaos, a lack of plans for how to succeed in changing times, the mismanagement of change, and a culture where employees are frustrated, overworked, and underappreciated or are planning to leave. This article defines Tsunami Change, presents Tsunami Change as different from the permanent white water change so accurately portrayed by Peter Vail that organizations are experiencing, and offers recommendations for managing Tsunami Change and developing organizational expertise in managing change.; The accumulative and accelerated rate of change organizations are dealing with in today's times of non-stop and unpredictable change and the powerful wave of changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have had an overwhelming, Tsunami Change effect on many organizations. The result can be organizational chaos, a lack of plans for how to succeed in changing times, the mismanagement of change, and a culture where employees are frustrated, overworked, and underappreciated or are planning to leave. This article defines Tsunami Change, presents Tsunami Change as different from the permanent white water change so accurately portrayed by Peter Vail that organizations are experiencing, and offers recommendations for managing Tsunami Change and developing organizational expertise in managing change.

Publication Date

2022

Publication Title

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Publisher

SAGE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/00218863221132314

Volume

59

Issue

2

Start Page No.

337

End Page No.

340

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