Organizational change: a case based study

Organizational change itself is typically understood to be a purposeful rather than an unplanned activity. Organizations have to change in order to adapt to environmental demands and to remain competitive. Despite the desirable feature of change to organizations, change agents frequently find that employee resist change. The purpose of this paper is to study how change takes place in an organization and what kind of change takes place for this an extensive literature review was done and methodology was taken by developing cases on Indian companies. Data was collected from the journals, articles, and company websites in order to meet out our objectives.

The cases were analyzed and compared to find that how different companies have adopted organizational change to increase organizational performance. The analysis covers the approach to implement the organizational change. The findings suggest that organizational change framework is helpful to bring positive results to performance. However, the implementation of an organizational change faces several obstacles. Limitation of the study is that the research findings cannot be generalized due to small sample size.