- Title
- Change management implications of a retrenchment strategy in a selected section of a telecommunications organisation
- Creator
- Aucamp, Mertz
- Subject
- Organizational change -- Management
- Subject
- Downsizing of organizations -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2001
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:10847
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/46
- Identifier
- Organizational change -- Management
- Identifier
- Downsizing of organizations -- South Africa
- Description
- An audit report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) indicated that a company needs to ensure that support is provided to those employees who remain after a staff reduction process and that their needs are managed effectively. One of the recommendations by ANAO for companies that are embarking on restructuring and future staff reduction programs, is the facilitation of change management workshops, or intervention to prepare the staff to manage change. A literature study revealed that no change management model existed that specifically focused on the “survivors” of a retrenchment or restructuring strategy in a company. The literature study was therefore used to assist in developing a change management in Telkom SA. Pre-assessment and post-assessment questionnaires were developed to test the employees’ abilities to manage change and their understanding of the changes that the telecommunications industry is facing. The findings of the survey showed a high level of employee tolerance to change and illuminated the value that was added by the developed change management model.
- Format
- xii, 130 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Port Elizabeth Technikon
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management, Business Administration
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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