Investigating the role of changes in the future of organizations

Abstract

Since organizational change may include various kinds of changes, so paying more attention to the future of organizations is an important strategy for every society and organization. The changes are so massive that organizations have been re-organized, duties and job activities have been reformed and make the executives of organizational change have been involved in dealing with different programs including fundamental and gradual changes. This research aims to investigate the role of changes in the future of organizations. This is a developmental, descriptive research and a library method (books, articles, theses and internet) has been used for data collection. The results show that organizational change is so fast, multi-dimensional, complex and comprehensive that without appropriate and timely prediction or adjustment, organizations can not exist, grow and develop. Based on the results of this research, financial and physical properties in organizations should be replaced by mental properties and they should be in format of knowledge-based, Shamrock, 3-dimentional and federal organizations. Organization may lose their pyramid form which is based on hierarchy and bureaucracy and may change into network organizations in which things are done together.