ADMN 1206 - Strategic Change: Employee Participation and Research

This essay provides an analysis of the article 'Influence of participation in strategic change: Resistance, organizational commitment and change goal achievement' by Rune Lines. The essay includes a synopsis, critique, and reflection on the article's findings regarding the relationship between employee participation and successful strategic change implementation. It highlights the positive correlation between participation and goal achievement, as well as organizational commitment, while also noting the negative relationship between participation and resistance to change. The critique addresses the limitations of the research, such as the reliance on single key informants and the consideration of individual differences. The reflection emphasizes the importance of understanding how organizations can overcome difficulties during strategic change implementation. Additionally, the essay identifies and ranks the three most influential articles from the original article's reference section, justifying their selection based on their relevance to employee participation and organizational performance.

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12/6/2018

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Synopsis
This article focuses on the number of factors that are related to strategic change
implementation in the organisation and causes influence of participation. Employees’
participation creates a strong commitment of employees and reduces the organisational
resistance towards a strategic change.
This article focuses on two interrelated question that helps in identifying the
knowledge gap related to the participation of people in strategic change. In the first question
it focuses on to examine and investigate the relationship between two firms and then after it,
the author tried to establish that at what degree and at what extent it affects the participation
of people by considering the approach applied in the research paper.
The author conducted the research on data collected by some national
telecommunications firm in order to measure the results of participation in strategic change.
The findings of the research paper are that there is a high level of positive relationship
between participation and goal-achievement and organisational commitment, and there is a
high degree of negative relationship between participation with resistance.
Critique
Participation is important for the success of any organisation and very few researchers
can truly and successfully support this assumption. Author has tested five hypotheses and
show how these are related to participation and successful implementation of strategic
change. The author also finds few limitations such as individual differences that are a
considerable factor in employees’ behaviour and their attitudes/behaviour. According to the
author, a major methodological limitation is that it is based on single key informants for
providing information on the study variables.
Reflection
This content helps me to understand what organisation should do to avoid and
overcome the difficulties arises during the strategic change implementation process. This
article also shows the positive relationship between participation and goal achievement and
commitment. This article helped me to further link with the lecture that how the organisation

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can overcome the difficult situations that arise during strategic change and its implementation
process.

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References
RANK-1
Hill, F.M. (1993) An evaluative study of the attitudinal and performance-related
outcomes of quality circle participation. International Journal of Quality and Reliability
Management, 10, pp. 28-47.
(This article has been selected at the first rank because it best explains the role of
employee participation and its impact on quality performance of the organisation. It shows
the positive impact of employee participation on quality achievement and organisational goal
achievement.)
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Martin, C.L., Parsons, C.K. and Bennett, N. (1995) The influence of employee
involvement program membership during downsizing: attitudes toward the employer and the
union. Journal of Management, 21(5), pp. 879-90.
(This article has been selected at the second rank because it best explains how
employee participation changes the organisation performance and how every individual has
his or her own style and attitude.)
RANK-3
Guth, W.D. and MacMillan, I.C. (1986) Strategy implementation versus middle
manager self-interest. Strategic Management Journal, 7(4), pp. 313—27
(This research best displayed the relationship between middle-level management and
employee. It also shows how it is helpful in implementation of strategic change in the
organisation.)