A Discussion on the Change of Organizations During the Covid-19 Period According to the Natural Selection Approach

The Covid-19 outbreak, with its announcement as a pandemic, caused numerous changes in thesocial and economic fields, and these changes have become the new realities of our lives. Besides, the pandemicoutbreak has begun to change the business practices for organizations and employees at a rapid pace in termsof the strategy, time, place, and sector variables. In this context, the principles of natural selection, which is anevolutionary approach based on biology, have been used especially to develop and expand the scope oforganizational research and to explain organizational change and survival. This study aims to determine whatchanges the Covid-19 process has brought on organizations, along with the stages of crisis and change, andhow organizations react to these changes within the framework of natural selection. Furthermore, in respect ofthe relationship between organizations and change during the Covid-19 outbreak, an attempt has been made todetermine the types of organizational change that the organizations are subjected to due to environmentalpressures in the context of the principles of the natural selection approach. In this context, it is possible toforesee the type of change that organizations are exposed to and their forward-looking positions as a result ofthe natural selection processes. In line with the information obtained from this research, it was determined thatthe form of the organizations started to change as a result of the new realities revealed by the crisis and changes during the Covid-19 outbreak and the conditions set by the pandemic. Accordingly, we can say that, during theCovid-19 outbreak, the organizations have gone through unplanned, macro, sudden, extended, proactive andreactive, active and passive, and revolutionary changes. As a result of these changes, according to the naturalselection approach, some organizations diversify, cling, spread and win the fight for existence. On the otherhand, if some organizations cannot adapt to change, diversify harmfully or uselessly or cannot provideresources, they lose their fight for survival and disappear.