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The stories that leaders tell during organisational change : the search for meaning during large-scale transformation

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dc.contributor.advisor May, M. S.
dc.contributor.author Veldsman, Dieter
dc.date.accessioned 2013-02-05T07:13:09Z
dc.date.available 2013-02-05T07:13:09Z
dc.date.issued 2013-02-05
dc.identifier.citation Veldsman, Dieter (2013) The stories that leaders tell during organisational change : the search for meaning during large-scale transformation, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8600> en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8600
dc.description.abstract Change has become the norm as knowledge economy organisations aim to build agile people, process, and technology practises to ensure future sustainability. Leaders have been criticised due to the inability to manage sustainable and meaningful change that will navigate the future success of the organisation. The research will explore leaders’ stories during an organisational change journey in order to determine the story type and subsequent meaning associated with leadership stories during organisational transformation. The research utilised a qualitative narrative inquiry research design to explore multiple leadership stories. Thematic network analysis was used to explore the themes identified within the leaders’ stories and to identify the themes of meaning evident beneath the surface. The research findings contribute to the field of Organisational Psychology by providing leaders with a framework for navigating sustainable change journeys, and explore current leadership practices that contribute to the high rate of current organisational change failures. en
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (ix,168 leaves)
dc.language.iso en en
dc.rights University of South Africa
dc.subject Change leadership en
dc.subject Change management en
dc.subject Transformation en
dc.subject Leadership storytelling en
dc.subject Meaning en
dc.subject Narrative vision en
dc.subject.ddc 658.406
dc.subject.lcsh Organizational change -- Management en
dc.subject.lcsh Change -- Management en
dc.subject.lcsh Management -- Storytelling en
dc.subject.lcsh Strategic planning -- Storytelling en
dc.title The stories that leaders tell during organisational change : the search for meaning during large-scale transformation en
dc.type Dissertation en
dc.description.department Industrial and Organisational Psychology en
dc.description.degree M. A.


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