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A: Evolution & Revolution as Organizations Grow In his article called Evolution & Revolution as Organizations Grow, Larry E. Greiner tells us that there is a series of developmental phases through which companies tend to pass as they grow. Each phase begins with a period of evolution, with steady growth and stability, and ends with a revolutionary period of turmoil and change. Furthermore, Greiner emphasizes that management practices that work well in one phase may bring on a crisis in another. Greiner built a model of “How Organizations Develop”, where there are 5 factors that influence the way companies develop. Here we compare the Greiner model to our article called “Emerging From Chapter 11”, written by Peter Dim. We shall determine with concrete claims and evidence, if the future of U.S. Airways has a positive or negative outlook, based on the Greiner model. The first factor that influences the way organizations develop is the “Age of the Organization”, where management problems and principles are rooted in time. The “Size of the Organization” is the next factor that affects companies. Problems of coordination and communication magnify, new functions emerge, hierarchy levels multiply and jobs are more interrelated as the size of an organization increases. The third and forth factors that changes the development of companies are the “Stages of Evolution and Revolution”, respectively. Stages of evolution are times of prolonged growth with quiet periods. This is when the managers maintain the growth under the same overall pattern of management. In contrast, stages of revolution are periods of substantial turbulence where traditional management practices are no longer working effectively. The task here is to find new sets of organizational practices that will become the basis of evolutionary growth. The last factor that influences the way companies develop is the “Growth Rate of the Industry”. This has to do with the speed of the phases that are related to the market environment of its industry. In “Emerging from Chapter 11”, the focus is on the airline carrier U.S. Airways. U.S. Air has been in business for over 60 years. Since 1939, it has been serving customers traveling needs, providing them with safe and reliable air transportation. Four decades of being in business tells us that U.S. Airways is a fairly mature and established company that has gained recognition around the world. Over time, as Greiner points out, companies are faced with different management problems.
Approximate Word count = 1569
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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