Sustainable Change Management A Case Of Telecommunication Contractors
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Date
2018Author
Mwangi, James Gathingi
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ThesisLanguage
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Construction firms implement changes within the project or organizational level. The
organizational changes are associated with management, technology, and people or cultural
and are the focus of our study. This study sought to examine how change management can be
executed effectively among the telecommunication contractors in Kenya. The major challenge
being the telecommunication industry which has developed in the last two decades has done so
within the background of the traditional construction industry, the contractors and the personnel
that would therefore form the backbone of the infrastructure development have the knowledge,
skills and the cultural values of an already existing system. There is need of a paradigm shift
such that organizations willing to participate in a new, evolving and dynamic telecoms industry
have to initiate change in order to adapt.
The review of literature investigates the concept of change management, the factors and
organizational components leading to successful change. In this section the research
investigated empirical evidence on change management within the telecommunication and
construction sector and identified challenges. The research also examined the theoretical
foundations that underpin change management and how they inform the present research.
The study adopted the use of both qualitative and quantitative method by sending
questionnaires and structured interviews to 48 respondents who are employees of
telecommunications contractors based in Nairobi and the findings were converted into ratios
or percentage using the likert scale in a way to provide numerical data.
The findings indicate that the approach to change adopted local contractors largely deviated
from model recommended by Kotter (2007) in his eight stage model. Kotter (2007) model was
adopted for benchmarking the local contractors in change management due to his emergent
approach on organizations adapting to change, synonymous with the telecommunications
industry.
The study therefore recommends that organization leadership strategy and structure should be
contingent on the nature of the telecommunication industry in terms of the environment,
production technology and work tasks. Local contractors should therefore adopt a participative
/ consultative leadership style and an organic structure.
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University of Nairobi
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