What are four factors that accelarate organizational change?
Organizational behavior is currently a growing field. Organizational studies departments generally form part of business schools, although many universities also have industrial psychology and industrial economics programs. The field is highly influential in the business world with practitioners like Peter Drucker and Peter Senge, who turned the academic research into business practices. Organizational behavior is becoming more important in the global economy as people with diverse backgrounds and cultural values have to work together effectively and efficiently. It is also under increasing criticism as a field for its ethnocentric and pro-capitalist assumptions. During the last 20 years organizational behavior study and practice has developed and expanded through creating integrations with other domains: Anthropology became an interesting prism to understanding firms as communities, by introducing concepts like Organizational culture, ‘organizational rituals’ and ‘symbolic acts’ enabl