Dramatic Change Everywhere: Implications for Organizational Change Management

In this chapter, the context-oriented approach is presented in order to demonstrate that change cannot take place in isolation from social and technological developments that are brought into every company by its employees. Old and new megatrends such as the widespread use of artificial intelligence in all areas require a dynamic and context-oriented approach and a good understanding not only of workshop techniques in change management, but also insights into how to deal with new influences from the environment in the long term. Consequently, traditional change management must also change in order to take these developments into account. The framework of this book is represented by post-modernism, complexity theory, and constructivism, and represents the poly-contextual approach for this book. Sociological systems theory is the reference theory that serves as the basis for gaining knowledge.