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Organizational development and change management: don't throw the baby out with the bath water

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This article examines the advantages and disadvantages of discontinuing the profession of organizational development and replacing it with a new profession called change management. Organizational development maintains a humanistic perspective of business change while change management professionals would incorporate more strategic, contingency-based changes that would result in more dramatic improvements.

Organizational Methods NEC, Research, Analysis, Management research, Professions

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Consistent and inconsistent impacts of a teacher-led empowerment initiative in a federation of schools

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An evaluation is presented on organizational change and a concurrent program led by instructors to encourage participation in the process. Findings indicate that while perceived effectiveness resulted from behavioral changes linked to the empowerment program, data were inconclusive in supporting a consistency framework.

Statistical Data Included, Methods, Evaluation, Behavioral assessment, Control (Psychology)

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Understanding the human side of merger and acquisition: An integrative framework

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Various theories are identified to explain problems in managing the merger and acquistition (M and A) organizational change process. It also provides a foundation for future theoretical and empirical M and A integration research.

Management dynamics, Acquisitions and mergers, Influence, Company business management, Workers, Employee attitudes

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