Essay Question 1: Change in contemporary organizations-25 marks

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Considering the extract below, differentiate in detail between the types of change mentioned below, describing why change is now a "continuous cycle" in contemporary organizations.

"When these disciplines (Organizational Change and Development) started they really focused on planned, timely change and improvements of the status quo. There was less talk of disruption or full-on transformation programmes, this was because most projects tended to be refrozen back to a stable way of working. This is where the difference has happened... we can no longer afford to stay still in organizations. Change is not just one project or one transformation that has an end point, it is a continuous cycle that must keep on going for any organisation to survive nowadays. Development as a term is a great fit to what organisations must do now. Development is continuous and to a certain extent inevitable, much like our own personal development. If we don't pay attention to it, or we don't spend some time to do it consciously the world will pass on by and we become invisible. Slightly harsh? Yes. However, we are seeing more and more examples of this in today's world. Just look at the retail sector; the organisations that are thriving are those that either disrupted the market in the first place or quickly decided to catch up. However, retail is not the only sector to see these shifts. Everyone must grow, innovate, evolve and develop. My new words to really describe what I help organisations do with people at the heart of it of course!"