scholarly journals Managing Change in Asian Business – A Comparison between Chinese-Educated and English-Educated Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 50-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Menkhoff ◽  
Ulrike Badibanga ◽  
Chay Yue Wah
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Managerial Knowledge ◽  
Management Approaches

Abstract Against the background of the current rapidly changing business environment, the article examines the organizational change management behaviour of the owner-managers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. The analysis of survey data is aimed at ascertaining whether there are any differences between Chinese and English educated small (ethnic Chinese) businessmen in terms of Change Management (CM), a dichotomy that is of great historical and politico-cultural significance in Singapore. The survey data show that there are indeed differences between the subgroups (eg with regard to the initiation of a more participatory people management style) but these variations turned out to be far less pronounced than expected. Access to information and actionable managerial knowledge appears to be a key precursor to the various change management approaches used by both groups. Chinese educated businessmen in particular seem to be somewhat disadvantaged in this respect, as modern change management literature is still largely only published in English. Keywords: Ethnic Chinese, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), Republic of Singapore, organizational change management.

scholarly journals المستخلص تمثل إدارة التغيير التنظيمي، نهج يُتبع لتحويل او انتقال الفرد، او فريق العمل، او المنظمة من حالة راهنة الى حالة مستقبلية مخطط لها. فهي عملية تنظيمية تهدف إلى مساعدة اصحاب المصلحة للقبول ومن ثم تبني التغييرات في بيئة الاعمال الخاصة بهم. ويمكن

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (88) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
حمزة محمد الجبوري
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

     The organizational change management, follows the approach to the transfer or transmission of the individual, or team, or the organization of the current case to the case of a future planned. It is an organizational process aimed at helping stakeholders to accept and then the changes in their business environment. And job satisfaction can be defined as the individual's sense of happiness and satisfaction during the performance of his work and achieved compatibility between what the individual expects from his work and how much it actually gets in this work, and job satisfaction is to pay the individual components of the work and production. Through the concepts above chose researcher on the title search goal of: "The impact organizational change management in job satisfaction among employees in orginization", in order to stand at the level of the relationship and the type of influence and power between the two variables mentioned, through test hypotheses two main which were submitted in the research methodology. Were distributed to identify search sample consisted of thirty (30) members of the individuals working in the Baghdad plant (tents)/ Baghdad- Waziriyah, in order to obtain the necessary data that was used later in the process of statistical analysis, where the research found the most important conclusion represented by the presence of a high level of correlation between the organizational change management and variables on the one hand, and job satisfaction among employees and variables on the other hand, as well as check the level of impact is acceptable between the organizational change management and variables of party, in job satisfaction among employees and variables at the opposite end, and this is what indicated by the results of the statistical analysis as for the most important research came out of recommendations represent intensify and encourage "interest organizational change management mechanisms followed in Baghdad plant (tents)/ Baghdad- Waziriyah, because of its positive effects on job satisfaction among employees".

Technochange Management: Using IT to Drive Organizational Change

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Lynne Markus
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Project Schedule ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
It Project ◽  
Management Approaches

Using IT in ways that can trigger major organizational changes creates high-risk, potentially high-reward, situations that I call technochange (for technology-driven organizational change). Technochange differs from typical IT projects and from typical organizational change programs and therefore requires a different approach. One major risk in technochange—that people will not use information technology and related work practices—is not thoroughly addressed by the discipline of IT project management, which focuses on project cost, project schedule, and solution functionality. Organizational change management approaches are also generally not effective on their own, because they take as a given the IT “solutions” developed by a technical team. Consequently, the potential for the IT “solution” to be misaligned with important organizational characteristics, such as culture or incentives, is great. Merely combining IT project management and organizational change management approaches does not produce the best results, for two reasons. First, the additive approach does not effectively address the many failure-threatening problems that can arise over the lengthy sequential process of the typical technochange lifecycle. Second, the additive approach is not structured to produce the characteristics of a good technochange solution: a complete intervention consisting of IT and complementary organizational changes, an implementable solution with minimal misfits with the existing organization, and an organization primed to appropriate the potential benefits of the technochange solution. With hard work and care, the combined IT project management plus organizational change approach can be made to work. However, an iterative, incremental approach to implementing technochange can be a better strategy in many situations. The essential characteristic of the technochange prototyping approach is that each phase involves both new IT functionality and related organizational changes, such as redesigned business processes, new performance metrics, and training.

scholarly journals Organizational Change Management for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7299
Author(s):  
Nicola A. Rieg ◽  
Birgitta C. M. Gatersleben ◽  
Ian Christie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Stakeholder Input ◽  
Management Approaches

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been urged to integrate sustainability across all their structural and organizational dimensions. A promising area of research and practice that can help to deliver this is organizational change management for sustainability. While this field has received increasing attention over the past decade, a comprehensive assessment is still lacking. Therefore, a systematic quantitative review was carried out to summarize and synthesize the academic literature on organizational change management approaches that aim to holistically embed sustainability in HEIs. Furthermore, this review aims to illustrate what change factors have been observed and how they have been analyzed, and from this highlight implications for practice and pathways for future research. The literature reviewed puts strong emphasis on change processes and human factors, as well as elements of the institutional framework, such as vision and strategy. The findings highlight the value of strategic and reflective actions, the importance of understanding and actively shaping change processes, and that change towards sustainability requires broad stakeholder input and commitment. This review serves as an important reference point for future research and practice.

scholarly journals Organizational Change Management in Higher Education through the Lens of Executive Coaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Vlachopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Organizational Change Management ◽  
Executive Coaches ◽  
Leadership In Higher Education ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Higher Education Leaders

This study investigated perceptions of organizational change management among executive coaches working with British higher-education leaders and factors that make leaders effective when managing change. This basic qualitative research used semi-structured interviews with eight executive coaches selected through purposeful sampling. As main challenges to efficient, inclusive change management, participants mentioned leaders’ lack of a strategic vision or plan, lack of leadership and future leader development programs, and lack of clarity in decision-making. They recognized that leaders’ academic and professional profiles are positively viewed and said that, with coaching and support in leadership and strategic planning, these people can inspire the academic community and promote positive change. Additional emphasis was given to the role of coaching in the development of key soft skills (honesty, responsibility, resiliency, creativity, proactivity, and empathy, among others), which are necessary for effective change management and leadership in higher education. The paper’s implications have two aspects. First, the lessons of the actual explicit content of the coaches’ observations (challenges to efficient change management and views of leaders); second, the implications of these observations (how coaching can help and what leaders need).

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