Studying the importance of change leadership and change management in layoffs, mergers, and closures
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Studying the importance of change leadership and change management in layoffs, mergers, and closures. / Holten, Ann-Louise; Hancock, Gregory Robert; Bøllingtoft, Anne.
I: Management Decision, Bind 58, Nr. 3, 2019, s. 393-409.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Studying the importance of change leadership and change management in layoffs, mergers, and closures
AU - Holten, Ann-Louise
AU - Hancock, Gregory Robert
AU - Bøllingtoft, Anne
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of change leadership (informing, communicating, involving and supporting) and change management (reasons and competencies for change) for organisational change processes and their outcomes across public and private organisations. The study includes three specific change situations: first, layoffs; second, mergers; and third, closures, relocations and outsourcing, focusing on how change leadership and change management relate to employees’ experience of the change processes and their outcomes across these change situations. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on panel data forming a representative sample of the Danish working population. A total of 2,120 responses were collected, 1,000 from public organisations and 1,120 from private organisations. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. Findings: The study findings show that both change leadership and change management predict positive change experiences and change consequences – and that they do so similarly across public and private sectors. Despite this similarity, the study reveals important sectorial differences, with public sector employees reporting less positive change experiences and consequences. Originality/value: The paper provides valuable knowledge for researchers and public and private leaders interested in the impact of change leadership and change management on change outcomes.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of change leadership (informing, communicating, involving and supporting) and change management (reasons and competencies for change) for organisational change processes and their outcomes across public and private organisations. The study includes three specific change situations: first, layoffs; second, mergers; and third, closures, relocations and outsourcing, focusing on how change leadership and change management relate to employees’ experience of the change processes and their outcomes across these change situations. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on panel data forming a representative sample of the Danish working population. A total of 2,120 responses were collected, 1,000 from public organisations and 1,120 from private organisations. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. Findings: The study findings show that both change leadership and change management predict positive change experiences and change consequences – and that they do so similarly across public and private sectors. Despite this similarity, the study reveals important sectorial differences, with public sector employees reporting less positive change experiences and consequences. Originality/value: The paper provides valuable knowledge for researchers and public and private leaders interested in the impact of change leadership and change management on change outcomes.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Change leadership
KW - Change management
KW - Change outcomes
KW - Multisample structural equation modelling
KW - Organizational change
U2 - 10.1108/MD-03-2017-0278
DO - 10.1108/MD-03-2017-0278
M3 - Journal article
VL - 58
SP - 393
EP - 409
JO - Management Decision
JF - Management Decision
SN - 0025-1747
IS - 3
ER -
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