Applying change management to general aviation: Pilot self-briefings for weather

General aviation (GA) pilots are increasingly relying on available weather technology to conduct preflight weather self-briefings, rather than call-in briefings to Flight Services. However, research has shown that GA pilots’ have difficulty in interpreting weather products, such as radar, and that this problem persists even after additional training. The domain of change management examines how to properly plan and implement transitions in technology. The current paper examines this transition from call-in to self-briefing using principles of change management, specifically from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology.

Agency via Awareness: A Unifying Meta-Process in Psychotherapy

To address the need for conceptual and clinical consensus within the field, psychotherapy research has increasingly focused on identifying common principles of change. While the field contends that this approach is atheoretical, we argue that principles of change cannot be fully understood or applied without the context of some theoretical framework. This article develops such a framework by identifying and explicating two theoretical assumptions that are implicitly shared by multiple therapeutic approaches: (1) that increasing agency is a fundamental aim of psychotherapy, and (2) that therapists enhance clients' agency by increasing their awareness. Building on the largely disparate empirical literatures demonstrating the importance of client agency and awareness to successful therapeutic outcomes, we provide a theoretical account of the highly iterative and synergistic meta-process by which these two factors jointly produce change. Explicit identification and empirical investigation of this Agency via Awareness psychotherapy meta-process, we argue, could facilitate scientific and clinical progress within the field. The hypothesized meta-process is discussed in relation to existing integrative models of therapeutic change, and its manifestations in the theory and practice of major therapeutic orientations are reviewed and illustrated. We discuss how this framework can facilitate psychotherapy research by providing a common language and conceptual foundation for wide-ranging therapeutic approaches, constructs, and findings. Finally, by raising clinicians' awareness of the implicit assumptions underlying their therapeutic work, we suggest that the Agency via Awareness framework can increase their agency over when and how they apply these assumptions in therapy to maximize client improvement.

Connecting More Deeply with Life in Organizations

Each chapter in this volume was asked to accomplish three very basic objectives: 1) Current state of research related to the theory; 2) Concrete description with some examples of the theory in practice, and 3) Research-based principles of change (how does the theory suggest change may be promoted and how does it deal with resistance?) This chapter reflects on how the various contributions achieve these objectives, with a particular focus on how they engaged with real organizations and their complexity at a crucial time of social and business environmental changes that stress systems and demand new responses.

Policy at the Intersection of Curriculum and Music Teacher Agency

Music teachers seek imaginative openings to expand the reach and scope of the music curriculum, particularly by engaging more students in creative production and culturally relevant offerings. This article describes the work of a high school choral music educator who implemented new courses in Hip Hop Production by strategically navigating the policy process for course approval in his school district, informing the proposal with readily available data, consulting with colleagues, and aligning the purposes of the courses with district initiatives. As a case of music teachers’ curricular agency, this story illustrates valuable orientations and principles of change that open up avenues for the expansion of music programs in the context of district-level policy environments.

ANALISIS DAN DESAIN PROSES BISNIS PERUSAHAAN DENGAN PENERAPAN BLUEPRINT DAN ASSESSMENT AS-IS VERSUS TO-BE (STUDY KASUS PADA SEBUAH PERUSAHAAN SWITCHGEAR DI BANTEN)

Financial reports that are always slow and inaccurate have a bad domino effect for the business, from starting prospective buyers to withdraw due to taking too long to get answers to inquiries, wrong selling prices due to incorrect recording costs, late incoming money due to late billing, and other internal operational constraints. Companies must immediately redesign the business processes, so they can operate more efficiently and increase productivity. Starting with setting clear objectives for the principles of change, followed by setting the intended Business Process Blueprint, and followed by a series of activities to identify the current process (As-Is) and define process objectives (To-Be), a new Business Process Design is obtained. reflects the flow of business processes that integrate all functions of the company. The integration of business processes has succeeded in making the process simpler with a focus on the flow of cash-in and cash-out processes as well as internal management which can be directly seen on the General Ledger to make it easier to make timely financial reports and correct costing costs and other important business decisions. Keywords: Design Process, Manufacturing Process Flow, ERP.

Case study: examining failure in change management

PurposeThis case study aims to shed light on what went wrong with the introduction of new surgical suture in a Dutch hospital operating theatre following a tender. Transition to working with new surgical suture was organized in accordance with legal and contractual provisions, and basic principles of change management were applied, but resistance from surgeons led to cancellation of supplies of the new suture.Design/methodology/approachResearchers had access to all documents relevant to the tendering procedure and crucial correspondence between stakeholders. Seventeen in-depth, 1 h interviews were conducted with key informants who were targeted through maximum variation sampling. Patients were not interviewed. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed by discourse analysis. A trial session and workshop were participatively observed. A cultural psychological perspective was adopted to gain an understanding of why certain practices appear to be resistant to change.FindingsFor the cardiothoracic surgeons, suture was more than just stitching material. Suture as a tactile element in their day-to-day work environment is embedded within a social arrangement that ties elements of professional accountability, risk avoidance and direct patient care together in a way that makes sense and feels secure. This arrangement is not to be fumbled with by outsiders.Practical implicationsBy understanding the practical and emotional stakes that medical professionals have in their work, lessons can be learned to prevent failure of future change initiatives.Originality/valueThe cultural psychological perspective adopted in this study has never been applied to understanding failed change in a hospital setting.

Formation of Change Support Teams As a New Tool for Personnel Management in the Organization

The article describes the main principles of Change management in the organization, the main barriers rising out of the Change management implementation in terms of employees’ attitude to innovations. Approaches to change management in the organization according to John Kotter are analyzed as well. This article is devoted to describing the original experience of forming change support teams at one of the industrial enterprises of the nuclear industry (JSC Afrikantov OKBM), reviewing the original organization of work and the matrix of distribution of functions between the main participants, as well as presenting practical results and economic eff ects from the work of the TOC.