The change has become a fundamental indicator for contemporary economy, from society to organization, every component being submitted to a continuous modification process of constructive and functional parameters. The current market economy is chiefly marked by the globalization tendency of the competition, by major and rapid changes of technologies and human resources.

Adapting organizations to the changes emerged in the external environment represents one of the managers’ constant preoccupations focused on maintaining the organization’s effectiveness as well as on increasing its performance.

The organizational change aims at some aspects extremely different from the point of view of its complexity, starting from the reorganization of the working teams to the elaboration of some new strategies or the improvement of the organizational structure.

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