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The Relationship Between Organizational Learning And Psychological Empowerment Under The Dynamics Of Organization Change

Posted on:2011-04-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H W TuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360302478376Subject:Business management
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Although a lot of studies talked about various type of change, process model of change, people do not understand the concrete mechanism of change, and it still regarded as a "black box". Further research need to be done to uncover it.In order to uncover this "black box" of organization changing process, this paper did a series of study on corporate entrepreneurship companies. Take corporate entrepreneurship as one kind of organization change, the focus of this study are: what's the driving power of corporate entrepreneurship? What are the main variables which promote corporate entrepreneurship process? How do these variables affect corporate changing performance? How do these variables interact with each other? All in all, this paper intends to explain the mechanism of organization changing mechanism.The purpose of study I is to explore the content of change driving power under the background of corporate entrepreneurship. In sub-study one, the method of grounded theory was adopted. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 13 different enterprises which were launching corporate entrepreneurship. There are total 19 managers of these firms were asked to introduce the critical incidents of organization change and what the leaders do to solve those problems which may be encountered. Based on this material, we coded for three times and at last we came up with the construct of content of driving power of organization change. It has four character, these characters are derived from organization systematic view: organization strategy, organization culture, organization products & service, organization structure. Use questionnaire method, the result of sub-study two indicates that the concept of the four character of change driving power is certificated. These four characters of organization change driving power are value driving, culture shaping, innovation promoting, and structure renewing.Based on previous literature, study II used questionnaire method to explore the organization changing mechanism. The result shows that organizational learning acts as a mediator in the process of which change driving power influences the corporate entrepreneurship efficiency in organization level. Employee psychological empowerment acts as a mediator in the process of which change driving power influences the corporate entrepreneurship efficiency in individual level.As we know organization learning and employee psychological empowerment are the main variables in the organization changing process. We need to know the interaction between them to explore organization changing process. So, Study III performed a questionnaire research. Through description analysis, regression analysis and dominance analysis, the result indicates that the interaction effect of organization learning and employee psychological empowerment is the most important factor of which influences the corporate entrepreneurship efficiency among the three independent variables (organization learning, psychological empowerment, interaction of them). This result supports the viewpoint that organizational learning and psychological empowerment interact with each other and bring about synergy effect in organization changing process.The aim of study IV is to further explore the mechanism of the interaction between organization learning and employee psychological empowerment. In this study, multi-cases method and two-period questionnaire investigation is used. In sub-study I, we analysis 3 critical accidents and conclude with two propositions that organizational learning and psychological empowerment would influence and promote each other. Sub-study II indicates that the degree of organization learning and employee psychological empowerment would increase continuously under the interaction of these two factors. And corporate performance increased accordingly. This shows the interaction process between these two variables, and explains the mechanism of organization changing process further.At last, the theoretical progresses and practical implications were discussed, as well as the limitations of the study and the directions for future research.
Keywords/Search Tags:Corporate entrepreneurship, change dynamic power, organizational learning, psychological empowerment, synergic effct, systematic theory, dominance analysis
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