scholarly journals Reflecting Backward to Project Forward: Refocusing on Values in Organizational Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 002188632110330
Author(s):  
Janina Klein
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Organizational Functioning ◽  
A Value

As ideals about what is worth having, doing, and being, values are core to organizational functioning. Various organizational elements, such as design, identity, and culture, as well as organizational practices, are infused with values, pointing to the critical role values play during organizational change. While we know that the congruence between established values and those of prescribed changes influences change outcomes, our understanding of the role of values in organizational change processes remains largely speculative. In this paper, I outline how taking a value-centered approach to organizational change can enhance our understanding of organizational change processes.

Investigating the Role of Data-Driven Decision-Making Within School Improvement Processes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1707-1725
Author(s):  
Venesser Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Data Driven Decision Making ◽  
Continuous School Improvement ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This chapter provides a detailed literature review exploring the importance of data-driven decision-making processes in current Australian school improvement processes within a context of evidence-based organizational change and development. An investigation into the concept of decision-making and its effect on organizational culture is conducted as change and development are considered to be the new constants in the current discourse around continuous school improvement in schools. In a close examination of literature, this chapter investigates how key factors such as collaboration, communication, and organizational trust are achieved through data-driven decision-making within continuous school improvement processes. The critical role of leadership in sustaining data cultures is also examined for its direct impact on continuous school improvement processes based on evidence-based organizational change and development practices. Future implications of data-driven decision-making to sustain continuous school improvement and accountability processes in Australian schools are discussed.

The critical role of trust in obtaining retailer support for a supplier’s strategic organizational change

2003 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Lusch ◽  
Matthew O’Brien ◽  
Birud Sindhav
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Critical Role

Punctuated Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Levinthal
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Multi Level

The pace of change is a central question regarding evolutionary dynamics. Some management theorists have pointed to processes of punctuated change; however, it is argued here that such accounts have generally under-attended to the multi-level nature of these processes and in particular to the critical role of speciation. By recognizing the multi-level nature of these dynamics, we can reconcile our often conflicting sense of organizations and technologies as undergoing periods of rapid change, while still conforming to a gradualist perspective with regard to the underlying elements of organizational capabilities and technologies. This argument is developed to consider change processes in three different contexts: the pace of technological change, shifts in organizational strategy and capabilities, and changes in the scope of firms.

Evidence for an effector role of endothelin in closure of the ductus arteriosus at birth

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (7) ◽  
pp. 1061-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavio Coceani ◽  
Lois Kelsey ◽  
Eric Seidlitz
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Concentration ◽  
Oxygen Tension ◽  
Ductus Arteriosus ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Blood Oxygen ◽  
Endothelin 1 ◽  
A Value ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Oxygen Concentrations

The ductus arteriosus is a special muscular shunt that in the fetus allows blood to bypass the unexpanded lungs. It closes rapidly after birth and this event is initiated by the physiologic rise in blood oxygen tension. Endothelin-1 has been proposed by us as a local mediator for oxygen after demonstrating that it is formed within the ductus and is a potent ductus constrictor. To confirm this possibility, we have now measured the release of endothelin-1 from the isolated ductus of near-term fetal lambs at different oxygen concentrations of the medium. In addition, using the same preparation, we have examined the effect on contractile tone of compounds interfering with the synthesis (phosphoramidon, 50 μM) and action (BQ123, 1 μM) of endothelin-1. We report that release of endothelin-1 from the ductus tends to increase with the oxygen concentration up to a value mimicking the neonatal condition. Phosphoramidon and, to a greater degree, BQ123 inhibit the contraction of the vessel to oxygen. These results implicate endothelin-1 as the effector agent for oxygen in the ductus and, by extension, assign to this peptide a critical role in the closure of the vessel at birth.Key words: ductus arteriosus closure, oxygen, endothelin.

Leiderschap in verandering

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janka Stoker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Change Processes

Leadership in change Leadership in change Janka Stoker, Gedrag & Organisatie, Volume 18, October 2005, pp. 260-279. In the process of organizational change, executives are an important factor for failure or success. Managers not only manage the change process, often they themselves are an object of change. This demands a double role of executives. Organizations put a lot of effort in defining the desired executive role, but very often this doesn't exceed the level of jargon and sloganizing. Research shows that there are considerable discrepancies between perceptions of executives and employees. Executives feel they live up to expectations, whereas employees perceive little change in leadership. Moreover, this study shows that the desired leadership is not always the most effective. The article gives possible explanations for these outcomes and describes how the two roles of executives in change processes interrelate. Playing the two roles demands of executives that they first change themselves, in order to subsequently be able to manage others. Therefore they need to gain insight to their own functioning.

Modeling mechanical alternans in the beating heart: advantages of a systems-oriented approach

1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (3) ◽  
pp. H690-H698 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Adler ◽  
Y. Mahler
Keyword(s):  
Functional Dependence ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Beating Heart ◽  
Discrete Method ◽  
End Diastolic Volume ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Experimental Findings ◽  
The Relationship

A model employing an original discrete method is proposed to explain mechanical alternans in the beating heart. This is compared with analysis using the difference-equation method, which has been utilized in some other areas of science and found to better represent the cardiac beat-to-beat behavior. The model shows the critical role of a slope with an exact value of 2 in the functional dependence between stroke volume (SV) and the end-diastolic volume (EDV). The implications of this model with respect to the factors causing sustained mechanical alternans (SMA) in the heart are shown. A criterion for determining whether SMA is caused by variations in EDV is described. However, this possibility is ruled out on the basis of experimental findings. It is further shown that SMA caused primarily by alterations in the contractile state leads to secondary variations in EDV. In this case the model predicts that the mean slope of SV as a function of EDV, as determined by the two alternating beats, has a value of 2 and is independent of the SV-EDV relation. This prediction concerning the relationship between SV and EDV is confirmed by available experimental data. The implications and advantages of the modeling approaches are explored.

Investigating the Role of Data-Driven Decision-Making Within School Improvement Processes

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venesser Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Data Driven Decision Making ◽  
Continuous School Improvement ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This chapter provides a detailed literature review exploring the importance of data-driven decision-making processes in current Australian school improvement processes within a context of evidence-based organizational change and development. An investigation into the concept of decision-making and its effect on organizational culture is conducted as change and development are considered to be the new constants in the current discourse around continuous school improvement in schools. In a close examination of literature, this chapter investigates how key factors such as collaboration, communication, and organizational trust are achieved through data-driven decision-making within continuous school improvement processes. The critical role of leadership in sustaining data cultures is also examined for its direct impact on continuous school improvement processes based on evidence-based organizational change and development practices. Future implications of data-driven decision-making to sustain continuous school improvement and accountability processes in Australian schools are discussed.

The Role of the SLP in Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening and Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Philofsky
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Prevalence Estimates ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Screening Assessment ◽  
Critical Components

AbstractRecent prevalence estimates for autism have been alarming as a function of the notable increase. Speech-language pathologists play a critical role in screening, assessment and intervention for children with autism. This article reviews signs that may be indicative of autism at different stages of language development, and discusses the importance of several psychometric properties—sensitivity and specificity—in utilizing screening measures for children with autism. Critical components of assessment for children with autism are reviewed. This article concludes with examples of intervention targets for children with ASD at various levels of language development.

A critical role of iNOS-derived Nitric Oxide (NO) and progesterone in implantation

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 115A-115A
Author(s):  
K CHWALISZ ◽  
E WINTERHAGER ◽  
T THIENEL ◽  
R GARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Critical Role
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