Management – Creating Agile Organizations
Using one of the topics from your reading see the topic below and find five additional peer-reviewed articles in this area (in addition to any of the readings) that provide context to the topic. Write a summary and synthesis that discusses the contributions of the five additional journal articles you selected and how this help to provide additional clarity on the topic.
Topic: Creating Agile Organizations
Organizations need to be more agile in the future.
In this context, agility means being able to move quickly and easily to accelerate growth. Agile organizations are characterized by clarity around strategic objectives, alignment of organizational goals, and increased efficacy. Organizations must be comfortable with rapidly adapting and failing fast while learning from those failures. They must break large and complex problems into smaller pieces that can be solved in an incremental manner. Agile organizations are willing to allow unimportant priorities to fall to the wayside, so they can focus on the most valuable work. I-O psychologists focused on change management and organizational development can provide support and expertise in transforming traditional organizations into agile organizations.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1.) Provide a 600 to 800-word summary (formatted according to APA guidelines) of the new research in this area from a minimum of five new peer-reviewed journal articles and identify questions that need exploring in future research.
2.) Your discussion should be organized in a three-paragraph format:
a.) Introductory Paragraph: gives an overview and definition of the topic you chose. At the end of the paragraph, it gives an idea of how your forum is organized.
b.) Current Trends Paragraph: In this paragraph, you will discuss the themes that you found in the research from the 5 articles related to your topic. This paragraph should be a synthesis of the research and not just a listing of annotated summaries.
c.) Future Research Paragraph: In this paragraph, you will discuss areas of future research by referencing the 5 articles that you identified. The future research areas should be based on the findings of the authors of those articles rather than the general ideas you may have.
