Decline
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Decline''' is a change over time from previously efficient to inefficient organizational functioning, from previously rational to non-rational organizational and individual decision-making, from previously law-abiding to law violating organizational and individual behavior, from previously virtuous to iniquitous individual moral behavior. |
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+ | '''Social decline''' or '''moral decline''' is typically characterised as reduced adherence to [[culture|cultural]] or [[norm (sociology)|social norms]] or [[Value (personal and cultural)|value]]s and widespread lapses in [[ethics|ethical]] behavior. | ||
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+ | Entities and organizations may enter a state of decline if they fail to respond effectively to changes, which may be the result of: | ||
+ | * inability to recognize change in the organizational environment | ||
+ | * insufficient resources to respond to change in the organizational environment | ||
+ | * refusal to respond to change in the organizational environment because organizational leaders benefit from organizational decline | ||
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+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[Decline of the Roman Empire]] | ||
+ | *[[Social disintegration]] | ||
+ | *[[Societal collapse]] | ||
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Social decline or moral decline is typically characterised as reduced adherence to cultural or social norms or values and widespread lapses in ethical behavior.
Entities and organizations may enter a state of decline if they fail to respond effectively to changes, which may be the result of:
- inability to recognize change in the organizational environment
- insufficient resources to respond to change in the organizational environment
- refusal to respond to change in the organizational environment because organizational leaders benefit from organizational decline
See also
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