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EMERGENT CHANGE

Emergent Change Today, we are living in a dynamic world with changes keep going on every day. When we look at changes, there are changes that are planned and unplanned. Planned changes are those changes that we seek, while unplanned changes are those changes we do not seek but we are being forced to accept them. Emergent change is the unplanned change that is not in anyone agenda. For example, look at the social media today, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc have emerged as global communication tools. No regulation forces people to use these social media, however, they have been used globally. People just found out the new way to communicate, make contact and share information through these social media. Fax, mail, become less chosen to communicate with each other. Facebook and WhatsApp are emergent changes. Emergent changes can be defined as ‘unpredictable, often unintentional, can come from anywhere, and involving relatively informal self-organising.’ (Weick & Quinn, 1999). According to Spacey 2016, emergent change ‘is the change that follows no big upfront plan; Change driven by small, frequent releases.’ Emergent Strategy to Changes Emergent change gives birth to the emergent strategy. Emergent strategy ‘is the process of identifying unexpected outcomes from the execution of corporate strategy and then learning to integrate those unexpected outcomes into future corporate plans.’ (Root III, 2018). According to Burnes 2009, emergent strategy to change have characteristics as follow:  This approach see change is a continuous process of learning  Repetitive small changes over time resulting in larger changes  Managers should have the vision to direct changes  The key activities are information gathering, learning and communication. As we can see from the above explanations, the emergent strategy is about learning from day to day practices and experiences, learning to see changes as the opportunity and how an organization can be more innovative and responsive to the changes. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Emergent Strategy According to Quain 2018, there are advantages and disadvantages of emergent strategy as follow: Advantages: 1. Helps organization to respond to its change environment for its benefit. 2. Gives organization flexibility to adjust to changes 3. Since this is a strategy from bottom to up, the innovation and ideas from the employees can boost the organization performance and make the employees feel more empowered.

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Disadvantages: The disadvantage of this approach, it is unpredictable while the organization need strategic plans as its guidance and framework. Conclusion There are changes that are planned and unplanned. In today’s rapid changes world, the organization needs to apply both planned and emergent strategy to increase its competitiveness and thrive to success.

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References Burnes, B 1996, ‘Organizational Choice and Organizational Change’, Management Decision, Vol. 35, Issue 10, pp. 753-759, viewed on 20 September 2018, . Quain, S 2018, Advantage and Disadvantage of Emergent Strategy, AZCentral, viewed on 21 September 2018, . Root III, DG 2018, Advantage and Disadvantage of Emergent Strategy, Chron, viewed on 20 September 2018, . Spacey, J 2016, Change: Emergent vs Planned, Simplicable, viewed on 20 September 2018, . Weick, K & Quinn, RE 1999, ‘Organisational change & development’, Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 50, pp. 361-386.