Adaptability - Translating the demands of the business environment into action. Organizations hold a system of norms and beliefs that support the organization's capacity to receive, interpret, and translate signals from its environment into internal behavioral changes that increase its chances for survival, growth and development. Three aspects of adaptability impact an organization's effectiveness. First is the ability to perceive and respond to the external environment.
Successful organizations are very focused on their customers and their competitors.
Second is the ability to respond to internal customers, regardless of level, department or function. Third is the capacity to restructure and re-institutionalize a set of behaviors and processes that allow the organization to adapt. Without this ability to implement adaptive response, an organization cannot be effective. Ph.D. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, in any manner, is prohibited.