This paper sketches the outlines of a differentiated approach towards the contribution of HRM to organizational change. While departing from a critique on the assumptions of the human resource‐based view of the firm, we develop an alternative approach which has been derived from the core...

Reports the effects of an employee involvement programme on members of a small, emerging high tech firm. (Names of firm, industry, and officers used in this study have been disguised). The attitudes of these employees towards management and their perceptions of behavioural changes are described....

Third‐order change in organizations refers to attempts to help organizational members to transcend their shared schemata. It has not previously been explored in depth. Uses mystical experience as a model of how the third‐order change process may occur. Discusses several characteristics of...

Discusses co‐management which is the step beyond self‐directed work teams and a natural evolution to a fully involved process of employee participation at all levels of the firm. Stresses that quality, productivity and organizational health are primarily what co‐management has to offer...

This paper reports the findings of a study regarding the reactions of 492 line‐level employees from two Fortune 500 organizations in response to the organizations’ recent implementation of self‐managing work teams (SMWTs). As predicted, we found that anticipatory injustice was...

One important question in the field of workplace spirituality concerns the relationship of this construct with employee work attitudes. This study attempts to make a rigorous empirical examination of the relationship between workplace spirituality and five prevalent employee job attitudinal...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify just rightsizing practices in a manufacturing organization in an attempt to redefine organizational justice. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 177 individuals were interviewed in an Indian manufacturing organization and their...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present a theory of the leadership process within the substantive setting of a cleaned‐up bureaucracy. Design/methodology/approach – Orthodox grounded theory is employed within the setting of a large public‐sector organization in an eastern state...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a qualitative study of employees' sensemaking as a social, communicative process during a major organizational transformation. Design/methodology/approach – This case study describes a major transition in work mode, from...

Purpose – This study aims to focus on the role of employee commitment in the success of organizational change initiatives. The authors seek to propose and test a model that delineates antecedents and consequences of affective, normative, and continuance commitment to organizational change....