Micro Changes: A Process Perspective on Organizational Changes

Abstract

Micro changes are defined in a process perspective as fluid, pervasive, ever changing, and existing in the organization’s micro processes. These organizational changes should be addressed in the literature and practice but have typically been neglected or forgotten. However, employees point at micro changes influencing everyday work activities as the most radical ones, crucial to their well-being and engagement at work. This book unpacks micro changes from a process perspective combined with empirical examples and cases. It aims to answer the questions of what micro changes are, why they are crucial to organizations, and how they are to be handled. Thus, it gives scholars within organizational studies new insights into organizational changes grounded in empirical material and inspires practitioners by offering a new and alternative lens through which to view organizational changes.