The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to stiffen the requirements for cleaning pollutants from the stacks of coal-fir
ed electricity generating plants, requiring a 30% reduction by 2025. With respect to organizational change, this would represent a change in ____________.
Within the field of organizational change, unplanned changes can come from a number of sources, many of them external to the organization. One of these are <u>government regulations</u>. These refer to a series of rules implemented by a government that all the related parties must follow, or risk being penalized for breaching them.
The Environmental Protection Agency is a federal agency of the United States government, which is tasked with protecting the environment. One of the main tools it has at its disposal is the creation of new regulations, as it has the power to enforce them. In this case, the stiffening of requirements for cleaning pollutants has a set date that all enterprises must comply with (2025), or face penalties. This is an example of a government regulation as an external factor of change for organizations.
