Reflections: Chaos in organizational change

Fitzgerald, LA; Eijnatten, van Fm Frans

doi:10.1108/09534810210433700

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“…The nature and quality of webs of social networks and the nature and quality of formal and informal communications within an organization. Research on organizational change has moved beyond reductionist measures of organizational structure, and increasingly embraces the complex role that networks and communications have on implementation of change interventions [ 44 ]. Connections between individuals, units, services, and hierarchies may be strong or weak, formal or informal, tangible or intangible.…”

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Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science

et al. 2009

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Background: Many interventions found to be effective in health services research studies fail to translate into meaningful patient care outcomes across multiple contexts. Health services researchers recognize the need to evaluate not only summative outcomes but also formative outcomes to assess the extent to which implementation is effective in a specific setting, prolongs sustainability, and promotes dissemination into other settings. Many implementation theories have been published to help promote effective implementation. However, they overlap considerably in the constructs included in individual theories, and a comparison of theories reveals that each is missing important constructs included in other theories. In addition, terminology and definitions are not consistent across theories. We describe the Consolidated Framework For Implementation Research (CFIR) that offers an overarching typology to promote implementation theory development and verification about what works where and why across multiple contexts.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science

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“…‘Mind … not matter comprises the fundamental ground state and the essence, as well as the omega point of the universe’ (Fitzgerald, , p. 342). Therefore, they study the ‘orgmind’ and criticize those of us who have not studied this phenomenon (Fitzgerald and van Eijnatten, , p. 408). Perhaps we do not study it because an organization is not an animate creature, and there are good grounds for suspecting that life is a prerequisite for a nervous system and a mind.…”

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“…That position labels me as a believer in ‘scientism’ rather than ‘science’. To defend themselves from the claim that CST deals only with ‘metaphors, analogies and abstractions’, Fitzgerald and van Eijnatten (, p. 408) state, ‘In our view, the purist position on this issue, i.e. the assertion that only those propositions than can be empirically verified are true, appears to be based on a narrow and delimiting interpretation of the scientific method’ (p. 408).…”

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Fiddling While the Planet Burns: The Scientific Validity of Chaordic Systems Thinking

Emery¹

2011

Syst. Res.

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In response to my refutation of their 2008 paper, Kira and van Eijnatten defend their refusal to retract their paper with a claim to scientific validity. This note examines the scientific validity of their approach, chaordic systems thinking (CST), using only the most basic criteria: respect for evidence, observing and reporting accurately and precisely, having an approach that is coherent, internally consistent, capable of generating propositions testable in real organizations and generating useful results. CST fails on every criterion. Instead of working on the best available evidence to advance research on the cooperative sustainable organizations that are required to deal with the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced, CST is attempting to solve a problem long since solved. It illustrates a serious malaise in social science. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Some researchers consider chaos theory a legitimate tool for change management and use the basic concepts of this theory to describe an organization's integration into and adaptation to its environment and the changes occurring within it (Fitzgerald and van Eijnatten 2002). The purpose of change management is to facilitate the efficient assimilation of methods and systems into an organization.…”

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Knowledge management as a mechanism for technological and organizational change management in Israeli universities

Shoham

Perry

2008

High Educ

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During the last decade, the higher education sector has experienced many pressures and changes (Hanna, Educause Review, 38(4), 25-34, 2003; Scott, Educause Review, 38, 64-80, 2003; Waterhouse, The power of e-learning: The essential guide for teaching in the digital age, 2005). Universities around the world are facing the need to adapt to a rapidly changing educational and social landscape, in which technology is both the main cause of change and a tool for dealing with the change. This study examines the organization-wide technological changes that have infiltrated every aspects of life at all universities that are part of the higher education system in Israel during the last 7 years: the introduction of on-line instruction, e-learning and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology for university work processesThe research findings show that there is a mechanism for managing organization-wide technological changes at Israeli universities but it is not a rational one. This study proposes a model for managing organization-wide technological changes in universities on the basis of the existing mechanism, using knowledge management strategies for the purpose of change management:KM-M-CM (Knowledge Management as a Mechanism for Change Management) Implementation of this model will make it possible to realize the challenge of transforming the university from a ''knowledge institution'' to a ''learning institution.'' It will come life to the extent that the higher education system in Israel, its leaders and decisionmakers understand the need for a permanent mechanism to manage change and adopt this rational model in order to establish it.

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Reflections: Chaos in organizational change

Cited by 42 publications

References 2 publications

Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science

Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science

Fiddling While the Planet Burns: The Scientific Validity of Chaordic Systems Thinking

Knowledge management as a mechanism for technological and organizational change management in Israeli universities

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