Zmiany w organizacji i strukturalna inercja
Organisational Change and Structural Inertia

Summary/Abstract: There is a variety of constraints on structural change within organizations. Structure is significantly affected by inertial forces arising from the organization’s policies that regulate its operations, and from its surrounding environment, e.g. having to publicly legitimize its organizational activity. Structural inertia is when an organization introduces adaptation changes but the response is too slow. The claim that organizational structures are affected by significant inertial forces does not mean that organizations never change. It rather means that organizations respond relatively slowly to whatever threats and opportunities occur in their environment. The conditions of selection favor organizations with high levels of reliability and rational levels of accountability. Creating conditions for reliable and predictable activity allows for highly reproducible structure. The price the organization pays for this is structural inertia. Accordingly, the very process of selection that favours reliable and accountable organizations also favours organizations with high levels of inertia.

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