...Jennifer Lawlor Purpose – This paper seeks to address the impact of an organisational change initiative on organisational employees, with specific reference to a micro-merger which occurred in a public sector, higher education organisation in Ireland. The literature on change management...

... of self‐selection as employees who remain in the organization may be more prone to loyal behavior. Practical implications When employees have extensive change experience, managers must adjust their way of thinking about change. Managers need to be alert to the prominence of more loyal behavior...

... change Change management Middle management Employee attitudes Employee involvement Italy The first way in which OC may be hypothesised to affect resistance is as a direct antecedent. A key theme in the commitment literature is that, because of their sense of psychological attachment...

... policies and practices of organizations. Change management Careers United Kingdom Expatriates The “New career” literature has argued that individuals have become key career activists in what has variously been termed the boundaryless, protean or intelligent career (Arthur and Rousseau, 1996...

... organizations Organizational restructuring Change management England Wales In a little publicized Thematic report, HMIC (2004) outlined a set of proposals that may have a significant impact on the internal structure and management of the police service in the long‐term. It recommended, inter...

... Group Publishing Limited 2006 Employee behaviour Organizational change Change management Banks Canada Much has been written on the subject of change in organizations. A topic of interest in the change literature is how employees respond to organizational changes. Empirical research...

... Employees Change management Job design There is a growing trend both in the UK and internationally towards changes in workforce configuration and skill‐mix in healthcare that has been driven by a range of environmental pressures and challenges (Davies, 2003). These drivers include: the need...

... challenge whatever's said by him (FBU Regional Chair). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Fire services Trade unions Change management Political parties Government United Kingdom The recent White Paper, Our Fire and Rescue Service (ODPM, 2003), and subsequent Fire and Rescue...

... was identified for the HCM that has been identified in some studies of call centres (Frenkel et al., 1998 ; Kinnie et al., 2000). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Call centres Employees Employee involvement Ireland Change management One of the traditional ways...

... other typology of teleworking (i.e. Daniels et al., 2001 , p. 1,155) such as the level of knowledge intensity or intra‐organizational contact. Human resource management Teleworking Change management The resource‐based view has become by far, the theory most often used within the HR...