Forces Driving Organizational Change: A Business School Perspective

Demystifying the Millennial student: A reassessment in measures of character and engagement in professional education

“…The desire for ubiquitous technologies which Millennial learners embrace challenges educators to identify and use instructional technologies that can be accessed freely (Kemelgor et al, 2000;Cross, 2003;Norris et al, 2003;Oblinger, 2003) including mobile systems that have shown significant learning gains when utilized to support specific objectives (Naismith et al, 2004). Generational differences alone do not provide enough information to make decisions about tools and resources that can support learning, particularly for the novice in professional training.…”

Developing Business School Strategies: A Practitioner-Oriented Conceptualization

“…Table 2 contains an example structure for this analysis. Together, the macro-environment and industry analyses enable the organization to identify the key drivers of change (Kemelgor, Johnson, & Srinivasan, 2000), i.e. those factors that will be chieß y responsible for shaping the way the business works in the future.…”

The key drivers of organizational culture change in the public sector: an analysis of the Canadian federal government

“…For example, theorists and practitioners of organizational change disagree on the independent variables, or change drivers, that are available for manipulation (Porras & Hoffer, 1996;Kemelgor, Johnson, & Srinivasan, 2000). Other researchers, (e.g., Barnett & Carroll, 1995;Ogbonna & Harris, 1998; have highlighted the lack of empirical evidence related to organizational change research.…”

“…Sirkin, Keenan and Jackson (2005) estimated that two out of three transformation efforts failed. Various reasons have been cited for these failures, such as a flawed guiding theory of change (Beer, Eisenstat, & Spector, 1990), an insufficient number of elements of the organization's systems included in the change initiative (Porras & Hoffer, 1996), the lack of agreement related to independent variables that are available to management to effect the change (Porras & Hoffer, 1996;Kemelgor, Johnson & Srinivasan, 2000) and the absence of change management competence (Griffith, 2002). In some cases, organizations are worse off than before as a result of these unsuccessful change initiatives (Katzenbach & Smith, 1993).…”

“…As has been noted earlier, the literature often identifies drivers of change that are external to the organization, and beyond management's control, such as globalization. However, there is little agreement in the literature regarding the key independent variables, or change drivers, that are available for manipulation in order to effect change (Porras & Hoffer, 1996;Kemelgor, Johnson & Srinivasan, 2000). Studies of successful organization-wide change initiatives revealed that the adoption of multiple change levers involving adjustments of structural arrangements and organizational processes is necessary (Pettigrew, Woodman & Cameron, 2001).…”