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Change management

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Strategies Health Care Leaders Use To Implement Strategic Change Initiatives Successfully, Sophia F. Brown Jan 2020

Strategies Health Care Leaders Use To Implement Strategic Change Initiatives Successfully, Sophia F. Brown

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Health care organizations lose a significant competitive edge when leaders fail to align strategic change initiatives with necessary operational activities. Health care leaders who struggle to maintain a competitive edge are at high risk for failure. Pettigrew and Whipp's content, process, and context strategic change management and Hoshin Kanri (HK) program deployment models constituted the composite conceptual framework for this study. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies health care leaders use to implement strategic change initiatives successfully. The participants comprised of 4 strategic change leaders from 2 health care organizations in Manhattan, New York, …


Evaluating Key Predictors Of Employee Response To Change In The Pharmaceutical Industry, Otis S. Johnson Jan 2016

Evaluating Key Predictors Of Employee Response To Change In The Pharmaceutical Industry, Otis S. Johnson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study addressed the factors that predict employee response to large-scale change in the United States pharmaceutical industry. When poorly executed, major organizational changes such as mergers and acquisitions are often disruptive and costly to organizations and demoralizing to employees. Although employee responses to change have been studied in several industries, employee responses during change execution in the pharmaceutical industry have not been subject to study. The purpose of this correlational study was to reduce the knowledge gap related to organizational change in the pharmaceutical industry by evaluating key predictors of employee response to large-scale change. The theoretical framework consisted …