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Research blogs, posts, articles and research briefings about organisational development, organisational change, evidence-based practice, leadership, management, human resources, learning and development and coaching.
How conflicting organisational cultures killed a merger
A longitudinal study just published in the British Journal of Management looked at how a ‘radical’ internet company was absorbed culturally into a ‘bureaucratic’ telecommunications business in The Netherlands. That the process took 12 years to complete at a cultural level shows just how hard it is to absorb a smaller organisation with a completely […]
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Understanding research – what a significant result actually means
In this article – Only the uninformed talk about research proving things The significance of significance How likely are we to get this result by random chance? Levels of significance What a significant result means In my last blog about research we looked at the fact that it’s almost impossible to prove something. Even […]
Read moreCan knowledge management really change organisational culture?Part 2. The research findings
This is a 2 part briefing of new research investigating the role knowledge management plays in changing organisational cultures. Part 1 – What is knowledge management and about the research Part 2 – The research findings (this post) 6 key findings The six key findings from the study are: Leaders can use knowledge management […]
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What is research? A primer
Whats in this article: What is research The aims of research Two types of research Deductive research Inductive research Proving things Things move on What is research? What do we mean by research? Quite simply research is a systematic, logical, methodical and structured investigation about something, usually to either find something specific out or to […]
Read moreCan knowledge management really change an organisational culture?
This is a 2 part briefing of new research investigating the role knowledge management plays in changing organisational cultures. Part 1 – (This post) What is knowledge management and about the research Part 2 – The research findings (Next post) The old saying, knowledge is power, shas been shown to have real effect when […]
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The Research Intelligence Briefs
Every week we send out new Research Briefings to our members. So what is a Research Briefing and what does it contain? There are over 78,000 new academic research papers published around the world every month (so we have a few to choose from!). The Oxford Review is the only service in the world that scans […]
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Organisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 3
In this post I look at what the researchers found about resistance, chains of frames and what people tend to focus on and what to do about it. In this post I looked at frames and framing contests and what they are, In the second post I looked at what the researchers found about the […]
Read moreOrganisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 2
This is the second post in a series of 3 looking at some new research from the US which shows how it is possible to achieve goals at an organisational level by a process called ‘frame decoupling’. In the last post I looked at frames and framing contests and what they are, In this post […]
Read moreOrganisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 1
Today I will start a three part posting about some important research published this month by researchers from Louisiana State University, and Colorado State University in the US, which shows how it is possible to achieve goals at an organisational level by a process called ‘frame decoupling’. In this post I will look at frames […]
Read moreResearch video: How to develop a high performance work culture
What a shoe shop can teach us about developing a high performance culture #Research from David Wilkinson on Vimeo.
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