During annual inventory week,a department store may ask its employees to work 12 hours a day instead of the usual 8.During tax-preparation time,the store's accounting department may imitate this same change in work hours.Although accounting employees are in a different department from stockroom and sales employees,it's expected they wouldn't be terribly upset by the temporary change in hours since they've seen it in effect elsewhere in the store.This is an example of innovative change.

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Adaptive change is reintroduction of a familiar practice-the implementation of a kind of change that has already been experienced within the same organization.This form of change is lowest in complexity,cost,and uncertainty.Because it is familiar,it is the least threatening to employees and thus will create the least resistance.This scenario is an example of adaptive change.

During Annual Inventory Week,a Department Store May Ask Its Employees