strategy
Managing change
Synonyms:
Controlling change Broader:
ManagingAdapting to change Narrower:
Creating alternative societyManaging business changeManaging environmental changeManaging technological changeManaging administrative changeSustaining existing initiativesForming intentional communitiesConveying sociological sciencesPreparing for post-industrial societyDeveloping hedging strategies for the unexpected Constrained by:
Increasing pace of life Facilitates:
Reaching critical mass Facilitated by:
Maintaining social managementPromoting social transformationImproving planning and management systems Problems:
Disruptive changeFaltering structural adjustment in the world economy
Fear of future change
Global crisis
Government resistance to institutional change
Inadequacy of prevailing learning systems
Inadequate models of socio-economic development
Increasing pace of life
Lack of political will
Rapidly changing cultures
Resistance to change
Suspicion of imposed change
Organizations:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Legacy International Voluntary Service Overseas References:
Davies, Anthony: Managing for a Change Subjects:
Society → SocialManagement → Management
Cybernetics → Control
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
