Strategic Change Participation Analysis Report for ADMN 1206 Course

This report analyzes the article "Influence of participation in strategic change: Resistance, organizational commitment and change goal achievement" by Rune Lines. The author examines the impact of employee participation in strategic change on organizational commitment, goal achievement, and resistance to change. The research, conducted on a national telecommunications firm, found a strong positive relationship between participation and goal attainment and organizational commitment, and a negative relationship with resistance. The report critiques the research limitations, highlighting individual differences and the use of a single key informant. The author identifies and ranks the three most influential articles from the reference list, explaining the rationale behind the rankings. The report also reflects on how the research helped to understand the importance of employee participation in the implementation of strategic changes.

Running Head: Research and Management Skills
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12/6/2018

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Synopsis
Through this article, the author tried to show the impact of participation of employees
in deliberate or strategic change on some set of factors that is related to the execution of
change in the organisation. Through this article, it has been shown that participation helps in
reducing the organisational resistance towards the strategic change implementation and
creates a high level of emotional obligation and commitment of employees towards the
strategic changes.
This article focuses on two interrelated research questions that help in identifying the
knowledge gap related to the participation of employees in strategic change. First, it
examines and considers the relationship based on two kinds of participation then secondly it
focusing on measuring the effect of participation in regards to the approach applied in the
research paper.
The research conducted on national telecommunication firms with intentions to
measure the result of participation in deliberate changes. The finding of research shows a
high degree of strong positive relationship between participation and organisational goal
attainment and obligations towards organisation and vice-versa. This research also suggests
that participation is also influenced by organisational culture and individual goals of change
recipients.
Critique
Participation is an important aspect of success in any organisation, although very few
researchers found to be successful to support this assumption. The major limitation of this
research paper is that every individual has different attitudes and behaviours, thus individual
differences; and the second limitation is that there is a single key informant provides all the
information related to research on the study variables. The author tested the five hypotheses
separately that how these are related to participation and strategic change implementation.
Reflection
This research paper helps me to understand how organisations can do to avoid and
eliminate problems, which occur during the strategic change implementation, and how

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participation of people makes it easier to implement changes in the organisation. Further, it
also helps me to understand the lecture on how the individual roles, their participation,
emotions, physiological and cognitive approach influence the strategic change
implementation in the organisation.

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References
Rank-1
Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A., Ackers, P.A. and Goodman, J. (1994)
Understanding the meaning of participation: views from the workplace. Human Relations,
47(8), pp. 867-94.
(This article best explain the importance of participation in the organisation and how
it helps in implementing strategic change. That is why it has been selected at the first rank.)
Rank-2
Mayer, R.C. and Schoorman, F.D. (1992) Predicting participation and production
outcomes through a two-dimensional model of organizational commitment. Academy of
Management Journal, 35(1), pp. 671-84.
(This article has been selected at second rank because it shows the importance of
participation and role of predictive participation to implement the changes in the
organisation.)
Rank-3
Heller, F. and Yukl, G. (1969) Participation, managerial decision making, and
situational variables. Organizational Behaviour and Human Performance, 4(1), pp. 227-41.
(This article has been selected at the third place because it shows the importance of
managerial decision making and its role in change management. It also shows how the
manager can influence their employees for participation in the organisation.)