Research On The Impact Factors Of Organizational Inertia

Organizational inertia is the nature of the organization, it is the tendency of keeping the original or known behavior and habit to adapt to changing environment in the process of the formation, development and transformation on the organization. Organization inertia is relative to the changing environment, "Not easy to change" is its essential attribute. The formation of the organizational inertia is a dynamic process of accumulation. In the modern society, as the increasing uncertain factors in the environment, the organizational inertia has been gradually become the main factor on conditioning the enterprise's development. The research of organizational inertia has got wide attention of the foreign scholars, but in the domestic is just in the initial stage. Scholars in the different angles have the deep analysis on the genesis of organizational inertia, but the research on the impact factors of organizational inertia have not a complete theoretical system, the empirical study is hardly any.Based on domestic and foreign scholars' study, through staff interviews, author obtained eight impact factors of organizational inertia, namely:organizational own factors, organizational staff, organizational resources, organizational structure, organizational mechanism, organizational ability, organizational culture, organizational external environment. At the same time, the paper compiles questionnaire on the impact factors of organizational inertia. This questionnaire includes three parts:the first part is the basic information; the second part is the options on the impact factors of organizational inertia with twenty-five options; the third part is the overall perception of the questionnaire with five options.The paper has completed empirical study of Xi'an owned enterprises. The data analysis results prove that the questionnaire has a good reliability and validity. The impact factor of owned enterprises' organizational inertia is explored by explored factor analysis. Through analyzing and discussing the results, the eight factors have significant impact on owned enterprises' organizational inertia. The organizational structure of owned enterprises is the most significant factor for organizational inertia. The bigger of the workers and the assets, the longer of the founded fixed number of year, the enterprises have the stronger organizational inertia.In the end of the paper, five suggestions are given based on the study above:establishing innovative enterprise culture, building a strong leadership team, cultivating the crisis consciousness, strengthening enterprise crisis management, designing the scientific structure of organization, strengthening the management of the organizational mechanism.