Perspectives on knowledge integration in cross-functional teams in information systems development

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into cross-functional team (CFT) members’ points of view on knowledge integration. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted using Q methodology. The 22 respondents were members of CFTs in information systems development within 7 agencies of the Flemish Government administration. Findings The study resulted in three distinct perspectives. To the CFT player, the benefits and added value of information and knowledge diversity of CFTs outweigh the challenges of knowledge integration. By contrast, the CFT sceptic is doubtful that knowledge integration in CFTs can ever work at all. Finally, the organization critic highlights the lack of support from the organization for efficient and effective knowledge integration in CFTs. Research limitations/implications The findings of this study suggest that CFT configurations have important implications for the development of shared team mental models and for teams’ cognitive performance. Practical implications Making CFT members aware of their peers’ mental models, ways of working and priorities could help strengthen knowledge integration. To improve knowledge integration in teams, managers should reduce knowledge boundaries that are the result of organizational structuring and power play between departments. Originality/value By focusing on daily experiences with knowledge integration, this study reveals that members of CFTs in information systems development hold contrasting perspectives on, and diverging attitudes towards, knowledge integration.

An Exploration of Organizational Change and Employees’ Performance in Nigeria

This study focused on Organizational Change (OC) and employees’ performance in banks in North Central of Nigeria. The study ascertained the effects of tolerance to change and the activities of fraud, and strategy change, organizational structuring, attitude of employees towards change and organizational culture on the performance of banks employee in North Central of Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study for Benue State is 168 and Kogi State is 202. The sample size of the study was 189. Multistage random sampling technique was adopted. Data were analyzed using Multiple Regression. Findings showed that tolerance to change, activities of fraudsters, organizational structuring, strategy change and organizational culture have effect on the performance of banks employee. Finding shows that complexity, attitude of employees towards change and tolerance to change have significant and negative influence, and that perceived advantage and employee motivation has positive and significant influence on the change acceptance of bank employees. The study concluded that OC is pivot to banking practices. The study recommended that bank leaders should sustain change tolerance level, devise better strategic approach to dealing with fraudsters and their activities; this may facilitate employees’ improved performance in North Central of Nigeria.

ANALISIS PENGARUH PENATAAN ORGANISASI LIPI TERHADAP KEBAHAGIAAN ASN PENDUKUNG IPTEK DI LINGKUNGAN LIPI

This research is based on a phenomenon that LIPI, as the largest research institution in Indonesia is also reorganizing fundamentally towards organizational goals, which are lean in structure and rich in functionswith business process based on competency network. This organizational arrangement is based on LIPI Regulation No.1 of 2019 concerning SOTK LIPI. Previously, the organizational structure was still rich in structure, less in function, and had a stratified work pattern. The changes in business process after SOTK LIPI applies have a direct impact on science and technology supporting staff who changes that are fundamentally based on functional and competency, are still require adaptation, especially in the clarity of advancing the career of science and technology supporting staff. This research is conducted to analyze the effect of organizational structuring on the happiness of science and technology supporting staff at LIPI.The research method used in this research is explanatory survey. The data analysis technique used to test the model used is multiple linear regression. The respondents are 200 of civil servants as science and technology supporting staff at LIPI. The results of this study indicate that the happiness of civil servants as science and technology supporting staff at LIPI is simultaneously influenced by organizational rearrangement (reorganization) includes restructuring, technology, physical and people settings.

REVITALISASI SILEK SUNUA DALAM MASYARAKAT KORONG KOTO TINGGI KANAGARIAN GUNUANG PADANG ALAI KABUPATEN PADANG PARIAMAN

The background of this research is the loss of one of arts in Korong Koto Tinggi, namely Silek Sunua. This research aims to revitalize Silek Sunua in Korong Koto Tinggi community, Gunuang Padang Alai village, Padang Pariaman regency. The method used was descriptive analysis with a qualitative form. The types of data in this study were primary and secondary data. The main instrument was the researcher itself. The data were collected through literature study, observation, interview, and documentation. The data analysis was conducted by using interpretation technique so that the truth can be obtained. The results of this study are efforts made to revitalize Silek Sunua. The efforts area ctivity excavation and re-activation as well as organization and socializat ionstructuring in Korong Koto Tinggi. Activity excavation and re-activation are done by holding back the Silek Sunua training and having organizational structuring torearrange the structure of the organization. Furthermore, the socialization is to reintroduce Silek Sunua to the community and the younger generation in Korong Koto Tinggi. Keywords: Revitalization, Sunua Silek, Koto Tinggi Korong

The Influence of Controlling System and Organizational Structuring Towards Employee Performance

This research starts from the fundamental problems of low performance of employees at the Agency of Empowerment of Community and Village, Nation Unity and Politics at City of Banjar. Its thought to have been came by Controling System and Organizational Structuring towards Employee Performance at the Agency of Empowerment of Community and Village, Nation Unity and Politics at City of Banjar, not yet implemented. The approach in this study refers to the context of the theory of Controling System and Organizational Structuring also Employee Performance as part of the scope of Public Administration. The method of research used explanatory survey with technical analysis Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), while the population is Agency of Empowerment of Community and Village, Nation Unity and Politics at City of Banjar. The results of the study showed the need for further research on the optimization of the increasing influence of Controling System and Organizational Structuring on Employee Performance at the Agency of Empowerment of Community and Village, Nation Unity and Politics at City of Banjar, viewed from the perspective of Public Administration. This is indicated by the existence of other variables that influence the Employee Performance at the Agency of Empowerment of Community and Village, Nation Unity and Politics at City of Banjar.

TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CATEGORIAL-CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Introduction. The confrontation of Ukrainian higher education institutions with the modern challenges and threats caused by the implementation in higher education of market economy principles and laws is possible under the conditions of appropriate organizational structuring. However, at present, scientific literature and practice do not have a generalized approach to the interpretation of basic concepts and categories of oorganizational structuring problems of higher education institutions in the conditions of development and formation of the education market. The purpose of the work is to specify the status and content of the categorical-conceptual apparatus of organizational structuring in the context of corporatization of higher education institutions. Results of work. The article deals with the basic provisions of structuring higher education institutions on the basis of corporatization. The peculiarities of applying a systematic approach to organizational structuring of higher education institutions are considered. The basic system para-meters of the higher education institution as a socio-economic system are described. The etymo-logy of the term «organization» is explored and the modern meaning of the term «organizational structuring» is clarified. Higher education institution is considered as a socio-economic organi-zation. Characteristics of organizational structuring of domestic higher education institutions are studied. Factors that have a significant influence on the organizational structuring process of higher education institutions are investigated and the functions of such structuring are analysed. The tools for organizational structuring of higher education institutions have been defined. The tendencies of organizational structures improvement of higher educational institutions have been worked out. The features of economic transformation that have a significant impact on the organizational structuring of educational institutions have been studied. Conclusions. The defined categorical and conceptual apparatus of organizational structuring of higher education institution is the basis for the system formation of characteristics of organizational structures, which quantitatively and qualitatively allows to obtain direct and indirect parameters of the existing structural construction in the process of designing, as well as for a structure that corresponds to the process of planning organizational changes in strategic development. The results obtained will help to clarify the understanding of the institution management in higher education the prerequisites of organizational structuring in terms of corporate governance. Keywords: education, educational services, institutions of higher education, organizational structure, structuring, factors of organizational and managerial structuring.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE MANAGEMENT IN THE FIELD OF TOURISM

Organizations Depending on the type of activity they exercise their size, geographical distribution, leading ideology, and the environment in which they operate, they select a suitable organizational structure. The organization's structure is static, it reflects the state of the organization, only at a certain moment, as decentralized as an organization, and it is harder for managers to impose bureaucratic norms. Organizational structuring is one of the issues that has always attracted the attention of scholars and practitioners. Drucker underlined that "A good organizational structure does not bring a good performance on its own, but a bad organizational structure makes it impossible to perform well, no matter how good it is to be its managers. All small or large, private or public, profit-oriented or not, regardless of the areas where they exercise their activity, have a common thing: the "need to manage". Each of them for the achievement of the final goal engages a variety of human, matrix and financial resources. The term management has many dimensions and definitions, which varies more than the description made to its functions. Researcher Brech defines management as "A social process that has the responsibility for planning and effective and economical regulation of an organization's operations in order to achieve a goal or a given task".

Protecting Long-term Commitment

Growing attention is being paid to the benefits of considering the long-term interests of multiple constituencies in corporate governance. A theory of the corporation where fiduciary duties of directors point to the legal entity and not to its shareholders goes beyond a pure prioritization of shareholders’ interests. However, the notion that board members mediate the interests of all constituencies fails to account for a ‘positive’ conception of corporate purpose and underlying asymmetries in allocations of rights between stakeholders. Addressing corporate governance as a fundamentally ‘open’ model for organizational structuring, we engage with a variety of legal mechanisms that can be used to implement and protect a positive purpose for the modern corporation and to protect the conditions of credible commitment to manage the company for the interest of corporate constituencies, to commit the corporation to a social or environmental purpose and to take into account multiple time-horizons.