ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the transitional approach to organizational change. The transitional approach is more capable than OD of taking on the complexity, the instability, and the uncertainty of an organizational system and its environment. Transitional change acquires a more permanent quality, one that is closer to the everyday realities experienced by people working in organizations and is less alienating. Transitional processes are specific processes leading to a more advanced degree of development and change. Unlike transitional change, transitive change is a process that involves no development or contribution to learning by individuals in the community but simply a change of state in a particular feature from A to B. Organizational transformation is different to the transitional approach in two main respects: it contains a dimension of obligation; it values change as an ideal in itself.
