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Implementation Strategies For Organizational Change Initiatives, Laura Massie

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Change initiatives within the higher education industry often fail because leaders are not successful in implementing change strategies. Higher education leaders who lack successful implementation strategies decrease employee productivity and increase educational costs for students. Grounded in Kotter’s (1995) eight-step model of change, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies senior-level executives in higher education use to implement organizational change initiatives. The participants were four leaders of two higher education organizations in West Virginia who successfully implemented change initiatives in finance operations. Data were collected from virtual semistructured interviews and organization documents. Yin’s 5 step …