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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"Organisational Change"”.
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Power and organisational change: a case study
… a part of a large group, which endured profound organisational changes. The initial objective of the research was to explore, in a processual way, the long-term interactions between an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, the consultants that implemented it and management accounting and …
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Toward a systemic theory of organisational change
Change is the subject matter for this thesis which reports on a research programme that has investigated the issue of effective and sustainable organisational change. Organisational change possesses an almost obsessive interest for many organisational and behavioural scholars. Nevertheless, it has …
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Revealing intangible assets and archetypes for organisational change
Organisational change is difficult to cope with, especially in the context of social complexity; for people see things differently, according to their assumptions, values, rationales or objectives. Adopting the complex adaptive character of human systems, this dissertation argues that non-linear …
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Obstacles to executive coaching during planned radical organisational change
… or executive coaching in Planned Radical Organisational Change (PROC). The research that does exist on these subjects focuses primarily on whether coaching is considered efficacious, and there has been no research on the obstacles preventing the adoption of executive coaching to assist …
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Exploring the impacts of organisational change : a structured prediction approach
… and relational dynamics of a multifaceted change process within a large Australian company. The Company had an extremely complex organisation and supply-chain structure and often its entities were severely impacted by change in a number of different ways, at various levels within the …
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Politics, power, and decision-making in faith-based organisational change
The South England Conference is a faith-based membership-driven organisation. They are part of a large Christian denomination and are integral to serving the European division. Yet, there has been a sharp decline in growth in recent years. Successive leaders have tried to address the issue but have …
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ICT-based information systems and organisational change in microfinance organisations
… research approaches within the fields of IS and organisational studies. It is based on an in-depth comparative case study in six micro finance organisations with different features and characteristics, combined with a questionnaire survey covering fifty-eight microfinance organisations of …
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Commitment to organisational change : the case of information system innovation
… tested the generalisability of the Commitment to Organisational Change construct (Herscovitch & Meyer, 2002) in the context of an information system change within a non-Western environment. The sample comprised 106 employees (70% response rate) of a large Namibian organisation and responses were …
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TQM in the rubber industry: "a case study on organisational change"
… adopts a planned prescriptive approach to change, organisations have not found it so easy to implement and to achieve the expected benefits. This thesis attempts to identify the factors, which influence both the implementation and success of TQM, and to establish whether TQM actually …
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A systems approach to organisational change leading to world class manufacturing
The author has reviewed World Class Manufacturing and considered the traditional ways of embarking on world class manufacturing initiatives. The reason for the failure of many of these initiatives has been argued. From a systems theory of organisations and the theory of levels of existence, a …
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The emotions of individuals during strategic and organisational change : A hermeneutic exploration.
… the emotions of individuals during strategic and organisational change from an objectivist ontology and subjectivist epistemology. It explores individuals' emotions and individuals' variations from organisations' cultural expectations and cultural fit. It considers individuals' emotions …
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A systems approach to organisational change leading to world-class communications services
… Satellite Earth Station is used as a case study. Changes to management and organisation systems were introduced in order to achieve the above. The report argues that change is inevitable and managers can only manage it and ensure that it happens smoothly. Interviews, questionnaires, group …
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Knowledge creation in a cross cultural context for sustainable organisational change and development
The central theme of this doctoral research is organisational knowledge creation in the cross cultural context of the post-socialist transition of former Eastern European (EE) countries towards a more liberal market structure and methods of working. This transition was particularly important for …
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The nature and dynamics of change: a systems approach to exploring organisational change
… significant increase in interest in the area of organisational change over the past thirty years. A multitude of approaches and methodologies have been proposed, developed and applied by organisational and management theorists, as well as systems and social scientists. Business practitioners and …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… AI could be positioned to influence strategic organisational change. It does so by delineating the AI features and drawing on affordance theory to explicitly identify the affordances, the types of organisational change and the constraining conditions under which such AI-related affordances may …
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Artificial Intelligence Affordances for Organisational Change: Perspectives from South African Artificial Intelligence Practitioners
… AI could be positioned to influence strategic organisational change. It does so by delineating the AI features and drawing on affordance theory to explicitly identify the affordances, the types of organisational change and the constraining conditions under which such AI-related affordances may …
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Organisational change and the introduction of activity based costing in a UK clearing bank
This research examines the nature of the organisational change that has taken place in the UK Clearing banks over the last fifteen years. It draws from and informs organisational change processes to help understand the effects of environmental disturbance, that is, the changes in the regulatory …
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