Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 14 Issue 2

The role of the reward system for a total quality management based strategy

Richard S. Allen, Ralph H. Kilmann

This study examines the impact of reward practices on the relationship between an organizational strategy based on the principles of total quality management (TQM) and perceptions…

Putting our own house in order: whiteness, change and organization studies

Diane Grimes

Assumptions about race in the discipline of organization studies are explored by introducing the notion of “interrogating whiteness”. Standpoint epistemology, which assumes…

A role for individuality and mystery in “managing” change

Carol Steiner

This philosophical paper explores why people have so much trouble understanding, coping with and managing change. It looks behind the problem to try to understand its origins. It…

Remembrance of things past? Change, development and paternalism

Julie Wolfram Cox

As part of a retrospective study of effects of organizational change on interpersonal relations, this paper discusses change talk among Australian employees of an American…

Changing forms of organizing: dualities in using remote collaboration technologies in film production

Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, Thekla Rura‐Polley, Ellen Baker

A common argument is that organizations should adopt new organizational practices, in order to respond to the hyper‐competitive business environment. The assumption underlying…