increasingly becoming a fundamental tool for enhancing public administration. This paper discusses e-government’s implications on public policy formulation and implementation in Kenya. In addition, the challenges of adopting technology and organizational change are examined. Research conducted outside Sub-Saharan Africa showed that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to enhance efficiency, policy effectiveness, citizens’ participation, and democratic values. Based on the
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top management identity negotiation’ by Hélène Cherrier, Sally V. Russell, Kelly Fielding (abridged from a research paper originally published in Journal of Organizational Change Management in 2012). Two review questions are addressed: 1. What does the text suggests are the key factors promoting or inhibiting the effectiveness of top management to implement corporate environmentalism within their organization. 2. To what extent which the factors identified are applicable to management conflicts
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Successful Organizational Change Cummings and Worley (Organization Development and Change, 1995) describe a comprehensive, five-phase, general process for managing change, including: 1) motivating change, 2) creating vision, 3) developing political support, 4) managing the transition and 5) sustaining momentum. That process seems suitable for organizing and describing general guidelines about managing change. Whatever model you choose to use when guiding organizational change, that model should include
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workforce”(Hellriegel and Slocum, 2011, p. 553). The implementation of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) program resulted in a change in the organizational culture. It has transitioned to a more flexible entrepreneurial culture. This type of culture innovatively creates change with experimentation. The ROWE program affords more flexibility and employee freedom. The changes in Best Buy’s culture have afforded many
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Group 1 CHANGE MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION In a world that is increasingly fast paced and ever changing, the change management process is an integral part of any organization and manager. Whether planning a large fundamental change or a smaller incremental one, change must be planned and executed correctly and the following change management process will give direction in terms of content needed for successful transformation. It is an organizational process aimed at helping change stakeholders
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Diversity and Inclusion SOC/315 November 09, 2011 Diversity and Inclusion Diversity refers the inclusion of different types of people in a group or organization. Many people with different backgrounds work together every day to accomplish tasks assigned on daily basis. Before working together the group should know the different dimensions of diversity. “Dimensions of diversity exert an important impact on our early socialization and a powerful sustained impact on our experiences, values, assumptions
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Change Management and Communication Plan Team MGT/311 – Organizational Development March 2013 Change Management and Communication Plan Power Structures The organizational charts reveal that Riordan Manufacturing operates on a departmentalization structure. Grouping of positions by departments and job titles is considered as a division of specialization. The chart also details the lines of authority and responsibility and outlined with a formal power structure system. Employees
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There are many different types of change management interventions that can be used to implement change into an organisation, or in this case, the organisation, ‘Office Tigers’. It is part of the change agent’s role to assess which one will be the most beneficial, taking into account the organisations ‘unique problems (Lee, 2012), environmental forces and workforce’ (Allen & Macklin, 2012, p. 22). This essay will look at three different change management interventions, employee stress and wellness
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employee involvement, productivity, and absenteeism are based on industry benchmarks (University of Phoenix, 2013). What are the drivers for change? Synergetic Solutions is changing its focus from a computer trading organization to a networking design hot house (University of Phoenix, 2013). In doing so, they are experiencing some huge internal drivers of change. Technological capacity of the current work force is a stumbling block. Most of the staff possesses only basic computer assembling and trouble
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Providence, Rhode Island Feinstein Graduate School Managing Resistance to Change in Leadership Individual Report Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the MBA Degree Course: MGMT 5800 Effective Leadership Dr. Ron A. DiBattista Maheshwari Vansadia January 7, 2013 Summary In today's continuously changing environment organizations are subject to multiple changes that can be related to the organization's strategy, its structure, the employed
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