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Organisations continually live with the uncertainty of not knowing exactly how changes in the external environment will affect its operating capability and performance efficiency. With the rapid pace of change emanating from the social, economic and legislative pressures which have built up in modern industrial society, the impact of external events upon an organisation prove increasingly more difficult to control and influence (Beer, 1975; Toffler, 1970).
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Brooks, E. (1980). The Management of Organisational Change. In: Organizational Change. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16346-5_8
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