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Unpacking Unintended Consequences In Planned Organizationalchanges: A Process Model, Guowei Jian Mar 2016

Unpacking Unintended Consequences In Planned Organizationalchanges: A Process Model, Guowei Jian

Guowei Jian

The author develops a process model of the unintended consequences in planned organizational change that draws on the structuration, organizational change, and organizational tension literatures. The model depicts the communicative actions of both senior management and employees and reveals the dynamic through which unintended consequences unfold. The model extends theoretical understandings of planned organizational change and discusses how future research can build a dialectic and dialogic model of planned change focused on employee participation. The author illustrates the model with a case study of organizational change and its unintended consequences. The article concludes with insights on change management for practitioners …


Project Management And Organizational Change, Lynn Crawford, Alicia Aitken, Anat Hassner-Nahmias May 2015

Project Management And Organizational Change, Lynn Crawford, Alicia Aitken, Anat Hassner-Nahmias

Lynn Crawford

Extract: Organizational changes have become recognized as a distinct type of project or program, and it may be argued that the majority of projects involve some degree of organizational and behavioral change. The degree of this change can be expected to be greater in projects where the purpose is to achieve organizational change, but even where the focus is on other outcomes, achievement of desired benefits may require structural changes and will generally involve some change in the way people do things. However, while project managers claim to be implementers of change, current project management standards focus on change control …


An Ecological Approach To Organizational Transformation: The Growth Of Cross-Cultural Health Care Delivery In An Academic Community Health Network, James Geiger, Judith Sabino, Eric Gertner, Jarret Patton, Llewellyn Cornelius, Debbie Salas-Lopez Sep 2014

An Ecological Approach To Organizational Transformation: The Growth Of Cross-Cultural Health Care Delivery In An Academic Community Health Network, James Geiger, Judith Sabino, Eric Gertner, Jarret Patton, Llewellyn Cornelius, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


An Ecological Approach To Organizational Cultural Competence, Judith Sabino, Jarret Patton, Erica Mahady, Lynn Deitrick, James Geiger, Marykay Grim, Debbie Salas-Lopez Sep 2014

An Ecological Approach To Organizational Cultural Competence, Judith Sabino, Jarret Patton, Erica Mahady, Lynn Deitrick, James Geiger, Marykay Grim, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


Academic Integrity And Assignment Design, Stefanie Warlick Dec 2009

Academic Integrity And Assignment Design, Stefanie Warlick

Stefanie E Warlick

No abstract provided.


Teaching Tools For A Senior Level Policy Practice Course: Web Discussion, Listserv And E-Mail, Monica Nandan Dec 1998

Teaching Tools For A Senior Level Policy Practice Course: Web Discussion, Listserv And E-Mail, Monica Nandan

Monica Nandan

No abstract provided.