Organizational Change Change is an inevitable feature of

Vecchio (1991) has discussed sources of organizational change as being either external or internal. External sources of change are those that originate in the company's or institution's external environment. The external environment is said to include such variables as competitors, suppliers, customers, the economic climate, and the labor force. In an educational institution, this external environment would include parents, community members, textbook suppliers, etc.

Internal sources of change are defined by Vecchio as sources existing within the organization or institution. These internal sources might include factors such as employee attitudes, company benefits, productivity rate, and organizational structure.

Vecchio reports that in most instances, organizations deal with internal sources of change and that, usually, these are changes initiated by the organization itself in response to the company's pattern of growth and decline. Hamel (1994) has discussed this kind of organizational change (company/institution initiated) in business, noting that currently self-initiated change (commonly termed restructuring or reengineering

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