Community-Based Organizational Change
Community-based organizations are considered important mediators of social change, and human services professionals frequently directly participate in these organizations. Human services professionals are often asked to participate in planned organizational change through strategic planning. Bess (2015) asserts that when organizational theory is not fully recognized in community psychology, there is an opportunity for social change actuators to invoke new change models that can mitigate adverse effects of the initial social changes.
Drawing on your reading of Bess in the Studies for this unit, discuss the authors model and its potential relevance to human services changes that can be affected by romantic or tragic change. Give one example of each from the human services perspective.
Mediating Adverse Effects Planned Change
Strategic planning in an organization or a program requires active participation from individuals in what can be described as a community. Organizational theory may be considered an important tool for human services professionals, based on inquiries by scholars in the field of psychology. Only since 2007 has organization change theory begun to play a significant part in community change analysis and planning. Strategic planning is an instrument of organizational change. As we now know, organization change theory increasingly plays a central role in our understanding of effective mediation of potentially adverse effects of change.
In your readings for this unit, Boyd asks the question, is organizational theory needed? Discuss your assessment and conclusion about the benefits of organizational change theory.
Your post must:
- Answer both questions
- Be at least 250 words for each question
- Contain a minimum of one reference with a citation in APA 7 style.
- Follow APA style guidelines.
- References
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- Boyd, N. M. (2015). Organization theory in community contexts. Journal of Community Psychology, 43(6), 649?653.
- Bess, K. D. (2015). The impact of everyday experiences on planned organizational change: Applying schematic change theory to the study of narratives in community-based organizations. Journal of Community Psychology, 43(6), 739?759.
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