organizational culture and managers' personal attitudes play a crucial role in conducting change initiatives, especially strategic change. in this regard, middle managers' commitment to change is of great importance and cynicism is the biggest obstacle in forming this commitment. in the present study, it is investigated whether organizational justice dimensions, senior management supp...

one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...

This paper examines the dynamic and multi-level relationship between organization and innovation from three different but interdependent perspectives: a) the relationship between organizational structural forms and innovativeness; b) innovation as a process of organizational learning and knowledge creation; and c) organizational capacity for change and adaptation. It provides a critical review ...

Organizational change is vital for an organization to survive and stay competitive. A collective organizational member’s cooperation and commitment are needed in the successful implementation to provide a better service delivery to customers. Measuring organizational readiness for change at an organizational-level is more advantageous because the collective organizational members will more capa...

Although much contemporary thought considers advanced information technologies as either determinants or enablers of radical organizational change, empirical studies have revealed inconsistent findings to support the deterministic logic implicit in such arguments. This paper reviews the contradictory empirical findings both across studies and within studies, and proposes the use of theories emp...

Organizational researchers and practitioners have been interested in organizational change for some time. Historically, they have directed most of their efforts at improving the efficiency of planned top-down change. These efforts were strategic attempts at altering parameters leading to transformational change. Most efforts failed to meet their intended purposes. Transformational organizat...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) seeks to integrate the expertise of individual practitioners with the best available evidence within the context of the values and expectations of clients. Prior to implementing EBP, it is important to understand the significance that organizational change and organizational culture play. This article seeks to explore the literature associated with both organizatio...

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