Abstract
In order to survive and develop effectively in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, an organization should have the capacity for continuous and adaptive changes. Change can only occur through the collaboration of participants of this process. Collaboration should be adaptive. Adaptability of collaboration is expressed by its adjustment to dynamic organizational changes. Adaptive collaboration (AC) is an organizational capacity needed for coping with adaptive changes. The goal of the developed model is to shape AC, which provides stimulation and facilitation of collaborative interaction so as to face the challenges of conducting adaptive changes. The suggested DOCA (Determining, Organizing, Creating, Assigning) model includes these components: Determining an infrastructure of AC; Organizing AC; Creating AC groups; Assigning collaborative group members to perform the tasks required to conduct adaptive changes. Determining AC infrastructure consists in building an adaptive organizational structure, and forming dynamic change and task structures. Organizing AC consists in defining the conditions that provide creation of suitable AC groups. Creating AC groups is meant to encourage facilitation of adaptive collaboration. Assigning the group members tasks allows stimulation for collaborative interactions.
Highlights
In order to survive and develop effectively in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, an organization should conduct continuously complex adaptive changes [1,2,3,4]
Detailed elaboration of organizational development strategy involves: Determining the direction of organizational changes, which should take into consideration the characteristics of a change process, strengths and weaknesses of the organization, and threats and opportunities of the outside environment; Setting a multitude of adaptive changes based on evaluation their importance is determined by the measure of their influence on organizational activity towards adaptation to a changing outside environment
The goal of this paper is to present an Adaptive collaboration (AC) model for conducing adaptive organizational changes
Summary
In order to survive and develop effectively in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, an organization should conduct continuously complex adaptive changes [1,2,3,4]. Multiplicity of change participants requires the availability of organizational capacity, providing their effective relationships through collaboration [14,15,16]. Adaptability of collaboration is expressed by its adjustment to the dynamics and specificity of organizational changes. Adaptability of the change participants allows dynamic relationships among them through mutual adjustment of personal qualities. Building AC (providing adaptive use of the change participants’ qualities) is aimed at creating a dynamic change management team, forming managed adaptive collaborative groups of employees to conduct changes, and assigning the members of the collaborative group for the tasks realizing the change. The model shapes the process of building AC and provides facilitation and stimulation of collaborative interactions It allows adaptive changes required in an organization to be conducted effectively
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