Managing change effectively is a main challenge in the domain of change management. For organization managers must understand influencing factors which can force employees to motivate for change situation. This research focuses to examine the employees’ attitudes and behaviors by commitment with the organization and career. Before, employees’ commitment with the organization has been examined a...

Cooperation of processes in different organizations requires the definition of adequate interfaces among processes to model both data exchange and the cooperation logic. In modern e-Applications, in order to interconnect eServices of several organizations in a highly dynamic environment, the needs arises for a framework that allows a precise and rapid definition of cooperative processes, and fo...

For any Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiative to succeed human factors, in particular, motivation and commitment of the people involved should be kept in mind. In fact, Organizational Change Management (OCM) has been identified as an essential knowledge area for any SPI initiative. However, enough attention is still not given to the human factors and therefore, the high degree of failur...

This empirical-exploratory article sheds light on the change management approaches used by Chinese owner-managers of small firms in Singapore and their openness toward strategic learning. The paper examines widespread common-sense assumptions that ethnic Chinese adopt mostly directive-coercive (autocratic) change management approaches, which may stifle innovation. Great diversity exists amongst...

The focus of this study is on how communication should be applied and managed in times of change in organisations. However, before suggesting communication management strategies for change, it will be necessary to explore the concepts of change and change management. Since change management strategies are directly influenced by principles of strategic management (Burnes, 1996, p. 192), principl...

In this paper we describe a methodology and algorithm for historical analysis of the effort necessary for developers to make changes to software. The algorithm identifies factors which have historically increased the difficulty of changes. This methodology has implications for research into cost drivers. As an example of a research finding, we find that a system under study was “decaying” in th...

the infrastructures used for knowledge management in universities are important. nowadays, higher education institutions must be innovative and have appropriate capacity to change as well as adapting with constantly changing external conditions. therefore, the aim of the present study is to assess the relationship between infrastructures and organizational change capacity (occ) and study their ...

Changes are inevitable in construction projects. They could lead to disruptive impacts on the quality, schedule and budget of projects. Identifying changes and anticipating their consequences can help project teams mitigate these negative impacts. As a result, a change process model has been defined to improve this procedure. At first the present paper the defines some of the key terms in this ...