- Title
- The psychological adjustment of middle managers after revolutionary organisational change
- Creator
- Coates, Nicholas Robert
- ThesisAdvisor
- Fisher, Sarah
- Subject
- Psychology, Industrial -- South Africa Organizational change -- South Africa Organizational change -- Psychological aspects Management -- Psychological aspects
- Date
- 1999
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSocSc
- Identifier
- vital:3190
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008554
- Description
- With the accelerated process of political and socio-economic transformation in South Africa, revolutionary organisational change has become a given in contemporary South African business life (Human & Horwitz, 1992). For revolutionary organisational change to succeed in South Africa, middle managers who represent the 'cement' of the organisation, need to adjust at the individual level. However, the literature on organisational change remains curiously silent about individual adjustment (Ashford, 1988). The goals of the research were firstly, to recount the middle manager's perceptions and experiences of revolutionary organisational change. Secondly, to detail the psychological re-
- Format
- 188 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Coates, Nicholas Robert
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