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The toughest career decision you can make: give up or get going

 By Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D. - Does your career slump signal a need to find a new job or business? Or do you just dig in and work harder? Here are some tips for making that tough call. (Added: 14-Jan-2002 Hits: 1226 )

FROM THE COCKPIT: Lessons in Leading Through Crisis

 By Eileen McDargh - This vignette offers practical lessons for handling the fear and resultant anxiety which come with unexpected and unwanted change. While this true-life situation occurred in the clouds, the concepts are very much grounded in reality. Its lessons can be carried into the office, hospital, or lab.zeros streaming behind a behemoth's financial size. We gasp at the number of employees cast off from a consolidated giant... (Added: 24-Mar-2001 Hits: 1756 )

Process Improvement - a How to Guide

 By Paul Deis - This article is aimed at helping to enable process improvement for better performance—do it better, cheaper, faster. (Added: 1-Dec-2008 Hits: 464 )

The Ethics (and Success Factors) of Change

 By David Zatz, Ph.D. - Reasons why some people are suspicious of change efforts, and what change agents (including leaders and consultants) can do to avoid problems. Includes notes on what most successful changes have in common, regardless of their field (OD, quality, etc.) (Added: 22-Mar-2002 Hits: 2007 )

Total Quality Management (TQM) As Organizational Change

 By Robert Bacal - Moving to TQM is like any other organizational change. It must be managed effectively, and leaders of the change must take into account aspects of the organization's current "culture". (Added: 14-Nov-2000 Hits: 2424 )

Formal Modesl of Business Process Re-Engineering

 By Katayoun Atefi - This paper discusses the principles of business process re-engineering. This was published from the University of Toronto, in Canada. (Added: 1-Dec-2008 Hits: 370 )

Administrative Science Quarterly: Innovations as Catalysts for Organizational Change: Shifts in Organizational Cognition and Search.

 By Henrich Greve - This paper uses data on radio format changes to test hypotheses on innovations as catalysts for nonmimetic change in organizations. Innovations are difficult to interpret using existing schemata, causing organizations to search for information on the opportunities and threats implicit in observed innovations. Such search may lead to mimetic adoption of the innovation or, more likely, to more varied nonmimetic change. (Added: 26-May-2002 Hits: 961 )

The Satir Change Model

 By Stephen Smith - This conviction is the heart of the transformation system developed by family therapist Virginia Satir. Her system helps people improve their lives by transforming the way they see and express themselves.An element of the Satir System is a five-stage change model that describes the effects each stage has on feelings, thinking, performance, and physiology. Using the principles embodied in this model, you can improve how you process change and how you help others process change. (Added: 5-Aug-2002 Hits: 1792 )

Leading Those That Remain After Downsizing Or Job Loss

 By Robert Bacal - Downsizing...Right-sizing, layoffs or workforce adjustment, whatever the current "correct" terminology, the fact remains that it is the most difficult thing that managers will deal with in their careers (Added: 14-Oct-2000 Hits: 1577 )

Understanding The Seven Dynamics of Change

 By Robert Bacal - Whatever the kinds of change that people encounter, there are certain patterns of response that occur and re-occur. It is important that change leaders understand some of these patterns, since they are normal outcomes of the change process (Added: 14-Oct-2000 Hits: 3779 )

Towards a Model of Self-Organised Transformation

 By Richard Seel - I offer here some preliminary thoughts on a model of organisational change which has been floating around in my mind for a while. It was written up on a flip chart after a series of conversations with clients and subsequently refined a little. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 1444 )

The Formation of Breakaway Organizations: Observations and a Process Model

 By Bruno Dyck - FindArticles feature published December 1999 examines the processes involved when groups leave existing organizations to form new organizations. (Added: 9-Apr-2002 Hits: 973 )

Culture And Complexity

 By Richard Seel - Conventional approaches to organisational culture and change have been inadequate, partly because they have been based on outmoded models of organisational dynamics. A complexity approach can offer a new perspective, or paradigm, which leads to a radically different kind of practice for change agents. (Added: 21-Apr-2001 Hits: 3360 )

Musical Chairs, Anyone?

 By Jim Schaffer - Strategies for survival in times when there is no solid ground beneath your feet. (Added: 7-Dec-2003 Hits: 2129 )

The Nature of Organisational Change

 By Richard Seel - This article offers a simple typology of different kinds of change. It was developed to help clients understand change in organisations and it helps to explain the specific nature of organisational change as the most fundamental of these. It also offers some thoughts on the nature of organisational change. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 3306 )

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