A Fork in the Road of Change: A Comparison of Simple and Complex Organizational Change Models

This chapter will provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the reality that there are far fewer women than men in higher education leadership, and in particular, at the most prestigious educational institutions. In addition, this chapter will cover the key explanatory factors that underpin this phenomenon. Likewise, this chapter will review the existing organizational change models that are designed to address this problem. Specifically, the recruitment, retention, and promotion of diverse women to the academy will be addressed.

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A comparison of social and organizational change models: Information flow and data use processes.

Psychological Review ◽

10.1037/h0035568 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 80 (6) ◽

pp. 510-526 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Marshall Sashkin ◽

William C. Morris ◽

Leslie Horst

Keyword(s):

Organizational Change ◽

Information Flow ◽

Data Use ◽

Change Models ◽

Organizational Change Models

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Assessment and change leadership in an academic library department: a case study

Reference Services Review ◽

10.1108/rsr-05-2013-0028 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 148-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Toni M. Carter

Keyword(s):

Organizational Change ◽

Academic Libraries ◽

Integrated Assessment ◽

Academic Library ◽

Change Leadership ◽

Change Model ◽

Leadership Change ◽

Content Type ◽

Change Models

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an academic library's efforts to introduce course-integrated assessment into its library instruction program. Applying a leadership change model to the process allows for a step-by-step examination of both organizational change and the creation of cultures of assessment. Design/methodology/approach – Over a period of three years, course-integrated assessment was introduced into an academic library's instruction program. Rather than implementing rapid, superficial change, the process focused on transforming librarians' thoughts and feelings about their teaching and student learning. Dr John P. Kotter's eight-step process for leading organizational change is applied to explain the methodology. Findings – Kotter's leadership change model provides a suitable framework for organizing and implementing organizational change within an academic library. However, the use of his method to create and sustain cultures of assessment proves questionable. This may not be fault of his method, but a combination of a less than perfect application of his process and unrealistic expectations of how cultures of assessment develop and function. Research limitations/implications – The paper focuses on one unit within an academic library, rather than an academic library as a whole. Practical implications – Changing organizational culture, creating cultures of assessment, and/or implementing course-integrated assessment exemplify some of the challenging tasks academic libraries face in their mission to prove value. This case study provides a candid discussion of both successes and obstacles encountered in using a change leadership model to address each of these. It may also inspire other possible uses of such a model within academic libraries. Originality/value – According to Meredith Farkas, investigations into the application of leadership change models to build and sustain cultures of assessment within academic libraries do not exist in the literature.

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Probabilistic Road-Aware Geocast In VANETs

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ◽

10.11591/ijece.v5i3.pp599-610 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 599

Author(s):

Zubair Amjad ◽

Wang-Cheol Song

Keyword(s):

Traffic Congestion ◽

Spanning Tree ◽

Road Network ◽

Information Source ◽

Graph Representation ◽

Delivery Ratio ◽

Threshold Probability ◽

Change Models ◽

The Road ◽

Communication Technique

Geocast is a communication technique to disseminate information in specific geographic regions instead of node addresses. Traffic congestion, accidents, local hazards and digital content sharing are potential use cases of information sharing in VANETs. Recently, several approaches for geocast routing have been proposed to achieve high delivery ratios. These approaches consider a center point and radius to define the destination region also called geocast region. They focus only on routing scheme to enhance the delivery ratio and delays. However, these approaches do not consider the target region selection problem in the geocast routing. In this paper, we propose a novel application-level mechanism for sharing road conditions, such as accidents, detours and congestion in VANETs through probabilistic road-aware geocast routing. We assign probabilities to the roads around each intersection in the neighborhood road network of the source vehicle. We then build a spanning tree of roads (from graph representation of the road network) with information source as the root node. Nodes below the root represent junctions and edges represent inter-connecting road segments. Messages propagate along the branches of the spanning tree. The spanning tree represents the geocast region. As the information propagates down the branches, probability of road as geocast region decreases. Information is propagated until a threshold probability is reached. Our method also ensures that messages are not delivered to irrelevant vehicles irrespective of their proximity to the source. We evaluate our application through extensive and realistic simulations in ns-3 simulator using IDM car following and MOBIL lane change models for realistic modeling of vehicle mobility.

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