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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"organization change"”.
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The Coast Guard in transition : organization change in response to September 11
… States, the Coast Guard faces a number of new organizational and operational challenges. Many structural changes have occurred within a short period. Organizations have been regrouped and cross-organizational units have been formed in the recently established Department of Homeland Security. …
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Use of Teams to Accomplish Radical Organization Change: Examining the Influence of Team Cognitive Style and Leader Emotional Intelligence
As organizations continue to experience external pressures and uncertainties regarding their future viability, they are increasingly choosing to engage in some form of inter-organizational restructuring in order to survive (Burke, 2011; Campbell, 2009; Kohm & La Piana, 2003). Mergers, the …
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Individual Behavior Change in the Context of Organization Change: Towards Validation of the Transtheoretical Model of Change in an Organizational Environment
… to, and adoption of, new behaviors required by organization change initiatives. Psychological theories of individual behavior change have, in restricted instances, been applied into organizational environments. The transtheoretical model of change (TTM) offers a comprehensive explanation of …
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Meta-Ethnographic Development of a Dialogue Methodology Applied to Organization Discourse
… directing, intervening or transforming organizations. A "mechanism" which links theory with practice is missing, leaving practitioners with an acknowledgment of dialogue's central position, but without tools to enact this centrality in practice or research. This research constructs a …
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Applicability of Organization Development in Korean Companies
… whether OD can be applied in Korean companies. Organization development (OD) was not traditionally implemented in Korea, but as the Korean economy and society changed, many Korean companies changed the traditional way of managing their organizations. Korean culture is changing favorably to OD …
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Dispersed concentration of high-tech jobs in the new economy : the paradox of new information and communication technologies
… and implicit communication; and business organization change. Both my longitudinal empirical analysis and interviews suggest that the jobs in the high knowledge-generating production industries in the United States became further concentrated during the 1990s.
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Job satisfaction stability increases over time: meta-analysis and fifteen-year longitudinal study
… satisfaction stability, including time lag, job change, and organization change.
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Using optimization and lean principles to design work cells and make capital purchase decisions for hole drilling operations in turbine airfoil manufacturing
… is bound to cause friction within the organization. Change must be properly managed if it is to be done correctly. To implement any new structure for a work cell, both management and hourly employees must learn a new way of doing things. Often these new methods encounter significant …
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Special Education Department Organizational Change: A Case Study
… Z’s Exceptional Learner Department prior to an organizational leadership change which demonstrated the need for improvement in the current system of functioning. The study continued to monitor and explore the changes the district made in personnel, protocols, procedures and how accountability …
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The Impact of Cultural Change on Organizational Performance: The Case of Tanzania Breweries Limited
… of this study was to examine the extent to which organization’s cultural change impacts on overall organization performance with specific reference to Tanzania Breweries Limited. Specifically the study were aimed to find out the extent to which the competitive behaviour adopted after Joint Venture …
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The role of effective employee relations in management of work organization: A case study of Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) Dar es Salaam Region
… employee relations in management of work organization by taking a case of Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL). The study assessed causes of the recurrent industrial disputes, efforts made by stakeholders to settle disputes and the possibilities of improving the situation under the current …
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leaders for Manufacturing Program : breaking throught the quality ceiling
This thesis analyzes the challenges of change management in a US auto plant. The change initiative used as an example is the launch and implementation of quality recording and reporting software in a body assembly area. A more complete examination of this change initiative using the three lenses of …
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Facility management reorganizations: drivers for change in management of facility functions
… built environment. What is driving this constant change is the subject of this research. The research approach is an exploratory mixed method design. Through interviews of several facility managers, attributes were discovered that added understanding of the business and personnel activities that …
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An Impact Evaluation of a Masters TEFL Program Operating at a Language Institute in Thailand
… evaluation utilization, program management, and organization change. The evaluation also offers recommendations for the improvement of the program evaluation process, as well as for future research.
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An analysis of culture in The Kirin Group
… and solving the challenges of managing complex organizations. The Kirin Group, too, has been working on changing its organization culture. Specifically, after Kirin began to implement its globalization strategy in 2006, the organization culture challenge became one of the keystones to executing …
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Perceptual Agreement Between Multi-rater Feedback Sources in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
… is no evidence that leaders or others in this organization change their perceptions over time. These findings may point to the need for multi-rater instruments to be used in concert with personal development plans in order to improve the perception of leadership.
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Can Chameleons Lead Change? The Effect of Resistance to Change on High Self-Monitoring Leaders' Strength of Purpose
… be a double-edged sword when it comes to leading organization change. It was hypothesized that high self-monitoring (HSM) leaders would launch change in a participative manner and create positive conditions for change, but they would lack strength of purpose for leading the effort in the face of …
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Organizational Change Development Interventions: Are Multiple Interventions Useful?
The effects of multiple interventions in organizational development change were studied in a comprehensive meta-analytic review. Thirteen organizational interventions were assessed on five outcome variables based upon previous research of six major meta-analytic reviews. Findings based on 138 …
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nalysing Change Resistance to an Information Systems-Supported Process in a South African Public Hospital
Introducing technological change to an organization’s normal processes can potentially bring about positive or negative results, depending mostly on the manner in which the change was facilitated and integrated into the organization. However, very little research has been done on information …
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Collaboration for Organization Success: Linking Organization Support of Collaboration and Organization Effectiveness.
What does it take for organizations to support people working together effectively? What does it mean for an organization to be effective? Does successful collaboration lead to more effective organizations? This study explored these questions both theoretically and empirically in an effort to help …
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