Strategic planning in an organization or a program requires active participation from individuals in what can be described as a community. Organizational theory may be considered an important tool for human services professionals, based on inquiries by scholars in the field of psychology. Only since 2007 has organization change theory begun to play a significant part in community change analysis and planning. Strategic planning is an instrument of organizational change. As we now know, organization change theory increasingly plays a central role in our understanding of effective mediation of potentially adverse effects of change. In your readings for this week, Boyd 2015 asks the question, is organizational theory needed? Discuss your assessment and conclusion about the benefits of organization change theory