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Investigation of Resistant Factors in the Process of Organizational Change---A Case Study of Vanguard Security Group

Organizations must make themselves to change and run fast to keep up with changes in today¡¦s highly competitive world. However, there are some resistant factors enterprises have to deal with when they want to change. For example, improper organizational culture and lack of coordination and cooperation will lead to the implementation of organization change to failure. Although a large number of studies have been made on organizational change, there is no literature has discussed organizational culture, change or resistant factors of change in security companies. Therefore, this paper has three purposes: (a) to investigate conception of organizational change, culture, and resistant factors of the security company; (b) to estimate the relationship between different personal characteristics and different cognitions of organizational culture, change, and resistant factors in the security company; and (c) to recommend the security company some suggestions according to the findings. The data is collected from questionnaire survey in eight branches of Vanguard Security Group, and the final samples used for the analysis consist of 271 observations. Methodologically, this study considers the OLS and ordered Probit models. Results of this study show that organizational culture of Van Guard is the bureaucracy culture. Major types of strategic change that Van Guard should consider are technology, structure, task, and culture changes, and some resistances will occur in the process of organizational change. In addition, the estimation shows that different personal differences will have significant effects on each type of four organizational cultures, strategic changes, and resistant factors. It hoped that the results could contribute to a better understanding of the organizational reengineering, culture and resistant factors, and could be useful for managers to manage change in the security company.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626106-164013
Date26 June 2006
CreatorsWang, Ying-hsuan
ContributorsHenry Y Lo, Hueimei Liang, Yung-hsiang Ying, Chin-Tarn Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626106-164013
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