Improving the Role of Organisational Culture in Change Management through a Systems Approach

Author(s):  
N. Gökhan Torlak

The chapter assumes organisational culture, which is most valuable resource of organisation, cannot often be treated coherently by managers in change management that ultimately leads to ineffectiveness and failure. In order to make organisational culture a powerful managerial instrument in change management resulting in high organisational performance the chapter proceeds through the following sequence. At first, it elaborates chief characteristics of organisational culture in order to underline its value; secondly, portrays significance of interpreting and managing organisational milieu; thirdly, emphasises necessity and difficulty of organisational culture change; and then offers a systems approach called two strands model of soft systems methodology to improve the effect of corporate culture on organisational performance. The last part describes the methodology in depth and shows how it is applied to a private hospital that generates its improved version dealing with the major issue of open, full and equal participation in organisational culture change management.

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Hindle

This paper describes a selected aspect of a research project concerned with ‘contracts and competition’ in the recently reformed National Health Service. The particular feature highlighted in this paper is the central role played by the general practitioners in the health service as principal sources of the demands made on provider units (particularly hospitals) and, hence, critical determinants of volumes and costs in contracting. A practical outcome of the research has been the development of GP monitoring systems to be used by provider units particularly in the context of marketing-led referral expectations. The approach used to highlight areas of potential GP contract management and monitoring improvements has been a development of soft systems methodology.


BMJ Leader ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Brian Armstrong ◽  
John Maxwell ◽  
Eoghan Ferrie ◽  
Emma Greenwood ◽  
Linsey Sheerin

BackgroundThe academic literature demonstrates that organisational culture contributes to variation between healthcare organisations in outcomes and performance, patient satisfaction, innovation, healthcare quality and safety and employee job satisfaction.Objectives/methodsThe aims of this research were: (1) to review literature on organisational culture; (2) to identify the dominant culture within the Belfast RVH Emergency Department by using a combination of both the ‘Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument’ and ‘Rich Pictures’ soft systems methodology; and (3) to formulate recommendations.Results/conclusionWe found that the dominant organisational culture is a market culture (29.74 points), followed by hierarchy culture (28.97 points) then a clan culture (25.55 points) and an adhocracy culture (15.74 points), this infers an emphasis is placed predominantly on results and profitability. The results also look at the difference between current and preferred organisational culture. The largest desired difference can be seen in clan culture, with an increase of 12.93 points. Market culture decreases by 12.39 points. Hierarchy culture decreases with 3.58 points and adhocracy culture increases with 3.04 points. The dominant culture in the preferred situation becomes clan culture, followed by hierarchy culture, adhocracy culture and market culture. The results also show there was a differing gap within all professional groupings with admin (24.97 points), doctors (33.71 points), nurses (40.36 points) and others (11.08 points). The Rich Pictures results highlight contrasting multidisciplinary dynamics in regard to hierarchy, interteam cooperation and a team while working under extreme pressure, and were committed to quality, patient safety and service innovation.


The chapter is devoted to the energy efficiency analysis as a prerequisite for sustainable use of energy. In this regard, the current study is focused on the application of soft systems methodology (SSM) and its role as a problem structuring approach to analyze the energy efficiency initiatives. For this purpose, four research works were addressed. The mentioned researches employed a combination of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and (SSM) to assess the energy efficiency initiatives. The obtained results included the role of key players in rich pictures with a potential interest in a system for energy efficiency initiatives evaluations, the definition of the root, CATWOE components, and a conceptual model. The results of such processes could be applied in the establishment of a sufficiently accurate decision model capable of offering structured support giving rise to a more informed decision in terms of the energy efficiency measures implementation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Nur Muhammaditya ◽  
Sudarsono Hardjosoekarto

Artikel ini bertujuan menganalisis divergensi aktor-individual dalam pengelolaan bank soal digital menghadapi kebutuhan pemanfaatan big data pada masyarakat era 5.0. Kompleksitas divergensi tata kelola organisasi dilihat dari pendekatan berpikir sistem dimulai dari identifikasi permasalahan, pembuatan model konseptual, serta usulan yang berbasis tindakan secara menyeluruh dari setiap pemangku kepentingan. Ragam metode berpikir sistem yang digunakan berupa Soft Systems Methodology untuk menjawab pertanyaan penelitian yang menganalisis secara keseluruhan pemikiran, perkataan, dan tindakan pemilikmasalah. Hasil dari pendekatan sistem menunjukkan, transformasi digital di dalam pengelolaan bank soal mengalami hambatan ketercapaian pemanfaatan big data karena adanya divergensi institusional berupa hibridasi tata kelola administrasi publik yang disebabkan oleh mekanisme power, attraction, dan mimesis. Solusi yang dapat dilakukan dalam mendorong percepatan transformasi digital pertama terletak pada aspek power di level makro perlu adanya tata ulang aturan kelembagaan tranformasi digital yang terarahdan spesifik. Kedua pada aspek attraction perlu adanya penguasaan kompetensi bahasa pemrograman, data base enginering, dan data mining di setiap pegawai yang terlibat. Ketiga, pada aspek mimesis, organisasi dapat merujuk pada praktik terbaik keberhasilan organisasi lain. Kesimpulan penelitian menunjukkan terdapat dua belas aktivitas divergensi aktor individual yang menyebabkan hibridasi administrasi publik dan empat di antaranya mendukung perwujudan tranformasi digital. This article aims to analyze the divergence of individual actors in managing digital item banks in facing the needs of using big data in the 5.0 eras. The complexity of divergence in organizational governance captured from the systems thinking approach starting from the problems of making, conceptual models, and based on the overall actions of each stakeholder. Various systems thinking methods are used in the form of Soft Systems Methodology to answer research questions that analyse the overall thoughts, words, andactions of the problem owner. The results of the systems approach show that digital transformation in bank management is experiencing obstacles to achieving the use of big data due to institutional divergences in the form of hybridization in public administration governance caused by power, attractiveness and mimesis. The solution that can be done in encouraging the acceleration of the first digital transformation lies in the aspect of power at the macro level, there is a need for a directed and specific restructuring of the digitaltransformation institutional rules. Second, in the aspect of attraction, it is necessary to master the competence of programming languages, database techniques, and data mining for every employee involved. Third, in the mimetic aspect, organizations can refer to the best practices of other organizations’ success. The conclusion of the study shows that there are twelve individual actor-divergent activities that cause hybridization of public administration and four support the realization of the digital transformation.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.N. Ryabchikov ◽  
A.Yu. Shamanin ◽  
B.Kh. Aytbaev

The theory of systems allows to organize to more efficient management of the development and changes of the project. Classification of M. Jackson for classification of various practices of the systems approach was used for research and analysis. The paper deals with the use of systematic approach in organization management  to enhance efficiency in project progress and change management. Based on the classification of M. Jackson different applications of systematic approach are examined and analyzed. A case study of soft system thinking is described. The goal of ongoing research is development of a method to evaluate the effectiveness of project teams at HES MEPhI. The efforts involved application of soft systems methodology and yielded a unified methodology comprising tools and approaches of more efficient management of project teams. The merger of the soft systems methodology and evolution of developed tools into a combined methodology, its deployment in the practice of managing project teams in the field of education provides the launching site for its further extrapolation to other fields where project teams operate. Keywords: system approach, project teams, education, soft systems thinking, organizational cybernetics, changes, management, efficiency, project, team


TEME ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejana Zlatanović ◽  
Jelena Nikolić ◽  
Zlatko Nedelko

Innovativeness can be seen as a major competitive advantage in organizations enhancing their effectiveness and enabling the basis for sustainable development. Innovations in higher education systems have an impact on all the systems elements, relationships as well as on the higher order system in which higher education institutions (HEIs) are embedded, ranging from individuals to organizations. A holistic approach to innovativeness in higher education is required in order to improve innovativeness. The paper deals with the issues of improving innovativeness in higher education from the viewpoint of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), as a relevant interpretive systems approach. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how this systemic approach can help to explore the complex and pluralist nature of management innovativeness in higher education and provide a foundation for improving innovativeness of HEIs. Accordingly, the paper contributes to reveal different perceptions and interpretations of HEIs’ relevant stakeholders on innovativeness, as well as to identify systemically desirable and culturally feasible changes which can improve innovativeness of HEIs. Findings will be useful for HEIs to improve their innovativeness.


Author(s):  
Anabelem Soberanes-Martín ◽  
Samuel Olmos Peña ◽  
Magally Martínez Reyes

The primary means of human communication is language; it requires support to develop the ability to speak and it is not the same for everyone. Intellectual Disability (ID) makes the child learn and develop more slowly, leading to the development of language software. The chapter develops an application for mobile devices called Gradual Interactive Language (GIL), created through five stages of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and the classic model of software development. The results of the pilot test indicated that it is an alternative support to move from pre-language to language, not limited to children with ID, the only thing that would depend is the moment in which it will use; in addition to showing improvement through gradual exercises that allow the child to advance, considers the roles involved in the process of learning language (teachers, educators or therapists, parents, children, and technology), finally, a technical virtue of GIL is to run on any device regardless of the operating system it uses (iOS or Android).


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