ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how change affects both the individual and the whole organization. It begins with an examination of how we are still conditioned by our forefathers’ survival behaviours. The chapter looks at the individual level and shows how groups of individuals, who comprise an organization, have an effect on its ability to change. T. H. Holmes and R. H. Rahe suggested that individuals reporting life change units totalling less than 150 points should be in generally good health the following year. The chapter discusses how we, as individuals, go through the transition cycle. Conception describes the phase when the innovation, or change, is embryonic and introduced to the organization for the first time. During this phase only an extremely small percentage of the organization will accept the change. During the early initiation phase the growth in acceptance of the innovation, or change, finally starts with the early adopters in the population trying it out.
