Describe how the paradox of planned organizational change which has linear and nonlinear aspects can describe the pattern of change.
What will be an ideal response?
Change goals must be clear and change leaders willing to persist, over time, resulting in a process which may end up being somewhat linear or establish a nonlinear pattern. The linearity is not what members of the organization experience during the implementation process. Many may feel chaotic and constantly ask who is in charge. The nonlinearity process demonstrates, at the same time, the possibility of an emergent pattern. The nonlinearity process is linear in vector. But no pattern will emerge unless there is a clear change goal and the endpoint can be concretely described.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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