SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1

Worren, N. A. M., Ruddle, K., & Moore, K. (1999). From organizational development to change management: The emergence of a new profession. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 35(3), 273–286.

Topics in this article:

  • The emergence of change management as a service offering of major consulting firms
  • The authors compare change management with traditional organizational development (OD) in terms of theory.

Questions from this article:

  1. Are HR managers the change agent (as described in the article) needed for organizations to pursue their strategies today?
  2. What are the different perspectives on OD that we have seen (and are helpful) in the field of strategy-driven HRM?
  3. Do you believe that change management is a new and distinct field or an extension of OD? Explain.
  4. How can change management help to improve the strategic HRM perspective for organizations? What are the challenges to HRM?

 

Article 2

Rowlinson, M., Booth, C., Clark, P., Delahaye, A., & Procter, S. (2010). Social remembering and organizational memory. Organization Studies, 31(1), 69–87.

Topics in this article:

  • Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management.
  • The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. Taking a social constructionist, collectivist approach to social remembering in organizations allows connections to be made between memory and other research programs, such as organizational culture studies.

Questions from this article:

  1. How can the perspective of methodological individualism and “collected memory” be used to maximize the contributions of individuals to the overall organization’s SHRM goals?
  2. Do you agree with the statement that “whether an experience is remembered or not depends very much on whether it is committed to memory in the form of a story”? Why or why not? How can HR managers apply this perspective to improve HR practices?
  3. How are OMS (Organization Memory Studies) applicable in organizations today?