INTRODUCTON
No company today is in a particular stable environment. Even traditionally stable industries have witnessed and continue to experience turbulent change. Thus, the dynamic and changing environments that organisations face require adaptation, sometimes call for deep and rapid responses, "Change or die!" is the rallying cry among today's managers worldwide. Forces such as, nature of the workforce, technology, economic shocks, competition, social trends and world politics act as stimulants of change.
The theory of Privatisation and competition and the related academic literature suggests that Privatisation produces significant organisational change and that those changes, in conjunction with market forces and appropriate government actions, will produce positive results—in terms of profitability, efficiency, etc. Many changes in organisations just happen. Some organisations treat all changes as accidental occurrence, but we're concerned here with the planned change that occurred during the Privatisation process at Al-Ahram
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