On The Emergence Mechanism Of Team Goal Orientation And Its Relationship With Adaptability Under Episodec Organizational Change Among Water Companies: An ASD Perspective

Because of the high variability and complexity of market enviroment, the organizational change become an important way through which a enterprise gain competitive advantage to survive and develop. For chinese companies, they are facing not only deeper economic reform but unprecedented challenges and opportunities, and depend more on successful organizational change. Currently, water companies have experienced or are experiencing organizational change resulted from industral regulatory and policy adjustment, and this kind of organizational change is one that many chinese enterpirses must face. Based on previous research and theory, from the ASD dynamic evolution perspective this dissertation conducted a systemetic research on team goal orientation and related issues under context of organizational change and focused on three theoratical issues: (1)as a type of organizational change, what is the key chracteristics of episodic change? And what are the structure and dimensions of it? (2)what are the emergence and evolution mechanism of team goal orientation under episodic organizational change? (3)what impacts have different team goal orientation on team adaptability?. In order to answer these three questions, the paper conducted four empirical studies as follows.In study 1, the structure model and measuring scale of episodic organizational change characteristics were confirmed. Based on organizational change theory and water companies change practices, this study explored the structure and content of episodic organizational change feature through content analysis technique. By means of in-depth focus interview in groups this study found that the concept of episodic organizational change cheracteristic be a multidimensional structure and can be extracted into risky innovation, dynamic integration, network interaction, and time constraints. And then, the study developed a measuring scale for episodic organizational change characteristic. In the initial stage of scale development, based on 129 samples the exploratory factor analysis indicated that the scale of episodic organizational change characteristic include 14 items. On the stage of scale varification, another independent 158 samples come from water companies were employed to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the the structure of episodic organizational change characteristic is based on four-dimension model and the reliability and validity of scale developed in first stage are acceptable.The purposes of study 2 were to construct the formation and evolution model of team state goal orientation and to explore the emergence mechanism of work team goal orientation under episodic organizational change to provide basic framework for follow-up research. At first, according to study paradigm of IOP, based on relavent theories such as situation dependent theory and self-regulation theory this study made a theoretical deduction on emergence process of team goal orientation under episodic organizational change from ASD perspective. Then exapling of two work teams come from different water companies, case study method was used to analyse different phase of adaptation(A), selection(S), and development(D) of work teams under organizational change and to outline the team goal orientation emergence processes. By virtu of pattern matching and logic model techniques, this paper conducted a depth analysis on multi-source data and key events. The results showed that the work team orientation emergence be driven by team leader as well as situational conditions under organizational change and team leader shape the goal climate of team through change-coping strategies selection. The emergence of work team orientation would provide a basis and conditions for team development and functionlization, which were conducive to team adaptation at a higher level.Based on the conclusions of study 1 and study 2, the formation processes of work team orientation were explored by application of quantitative analytical methods in study 3. this study was conducted based on sample of 86 work teams come from water companies and the research data was collected through questionnaire. The analytical methods included stepwise regression for testing the interaction effects between episodic organizational change characteristics and team leader achievement pattern orientation and structural equation modeling approach for confirming team goal orientation formation mechanism. The findings suggested that as a kind of driving factors the chracteristics of episodic organizational change have a significant effect on team goal orientation, and team leader achievement pattern orientation influence team goal orientation emergence through its impacts on stress coping strategies selection under change.In study 4, the relationship between work team goal orientation and team adaptability under unforeseen change condition was examined and the dynamic processes that team evolved from function development to adaptation at higher level were further confirmed. The study took place in a laboratory and used a 2-hour computerized decision-making simulation. experiment study participants included 196 college juniors grouped into 66 3-person teams. The research results indicated that in unforeseen scenario team goal orientation have significant influence on team adaptability and team members'change commitment moderated the relationship between them, learning and performance orientation have more siginificant effects on team adaptability under conditions of higher level of change commitment.Lastly, the main research findings of these studies above were systematically summarized. Based on these conclusions the theoretical progresses and implication in management practices was discussed, meanwhile the directions for future research in this filed was pointed out as well as the limitations existed in empirical studies.