Absorbing the Wave of Change: A Grounded Case Study in
| Main Author: | Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib |
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| Format: | Article NonPeerReviewed |
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
, 2005
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https://repository.ugm.ac.id/21343/ http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=4204 |
Daftar Isi:
- ABSTRAK In the era of new global world, change and development became parts of organizational life. Organization needed to continuously align its strategy to deal with change. Understanding the dynamic process underlined such strategy would be beneficial in gaining some insight about specific behavior of the organization within change context. This study offered a qualitatively based analysis to explain organizational adaptive strategies emerging in conditions of significant organizational flux. The approach known as grounded case study was employed to analyze behavioral phenomena of an organization in dealing with change. The analysis revealed seven themes or metaphors describing the strategy of how individuals and organization should absorb change whilst maintaining their effective performances. Reanalyzing the themes, it was concluded that all strategies were basically progressed toward the attainment of a new level of efficiency and survival. These themes provided frameworks for understanding how and why individuals and organizations behave as they did during periods of flux and transition. Keywords: grounded case study, change behavior