THE INFLUENCING FACTORS OF ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 42 - 58, 26.12.2017

Abdulla Baddah

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that influence organisational change and the nature of relationship that exists between them in order to lead to favourable outcome(s) of change for organisations. This paper adopts a critical approachto identify the relationship between organisation culture, leadership, human resource practices and organisational change management. The extended literature review indicates the need to create and encourage positive relationships between factors that influence organisational change. The conceptual model that emerged from this paper leads to five propositions which emphasised that positive relationships do exist between influencing factors of organisational change management. Creating and maintaining quality and positive relationships between factors that influence organisational changemay not only be daunting to maintain and sustain throughout change process, but challenging to create in specific organisations and countries.

Keywords

Change Management, Organisational culture, HR practices, Leadership

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