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This 3 page paper discusses the life cycles of organizations, and whether Anthony Down's theories of organizational life cycles are still relevant. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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discusses organizational life styles, what they are, and who is present in an organization at various points in its life. Stages of an Organizations Life Cycle Organizations, like
plants, animals and humans, go through different life stages. Humans, for example, experience, infancy, childhood, the teenage years, young adulthood, and so on. Organizations are the same. Interestingly,
Ive found several different opinions on the life cycles of organizations with regard to exactly what stages they go through. One model says that organizations experience birth, youth, midlife
and maturity (McNamara, 1999); another says that "authors generally agree that a minimum of four stages exist [sic]: birth, growth, maturity, and decline" (Lorenzo, 1989). If we combine the
two, since Lorenzo allows us to weasel when he says there is "general agreement," we have six stages: birth, growth, youth, midlife, maturity and decline. There is another
stage, renewal, which some experts say can occur after maturity; the renewal stage is "characterized as a period of significant revitalization and respiriting for both the organization and its people"
(Lorenzo, 1989). Not everyone accepts the "renewal" stage as part of the organizational life cycle model, because it is "optional"-it "generally develops only as a result of some specific
action on the part of organizational leaders" (Lorenzo, 1989). Though the models cited above are detailed, the reality is simply that an organization is born, grows (through several
stages), and then declines. Since there doesnt seem to be true agreement on the intervening stages (are "youth" and "growth" the same?), the really important point is to remember
that organizations grow and change over their life spans, just as people do. New Organizations vs. Older Ones New organizations are much less formal, structured and personnel-heavy than
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