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Managing change

Synonyms:
Controlling change
Broader:
Managing
Adapting to change
Narrower:
Creating alternative society
Managing business change
Managing environmental change
Managing technological change
Managing administrative change
Sustaining existing initiatives
Forming intentional communities
Conveying sociological sciences
Preparing for post-industrial society
Developing hedging strategies for the unexpected
Constrained by:
Increasing pace of life
Facilitates:
Reaching critical mass
Facilitated by:
Maintaining social management
Promoting social transformation
Improving planning and management systems
Problems:
Disruptive change
Faltering structural adjustment in the world economy
Fear of future change
Global crisis
Government resistance to institutional change
Inadequacy of prevailing mental structures to challenge of human survival
Inadequate models of socio-economic development
Increasing pace of life
Lack of political will
Rapidly changing cultures
Resistance to change
Suspicion of imposed change
Values:
Change
Unsociable
Changeableness
Transformation
Organizations:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Legacy International
Voluntary Service Overseas
References:
Davies, Anthony: Managing for a Change
Subjects:
Social
Management
Control
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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