Quality culture and the management of organization change

Abstract

Surveys 14 companies, winners of the Australia Quality Award between 1989 and 1993, regarding the dynamics of the change processes which led to their achievement of the awards. Hypothesizes that the organizations which won the award have successfully managed the process of complex organizational change. The survey was designed to test various system models and change guidelines that deal with the dynamics of successful change. The findings strongly supported these guidelines, i.e. that successful change was systemic and occurred simultaneously and complementarily in a number of organizational subsystems.

Citation

Abraham, M., Fisher, T. and Crawford, J. (1997), "Quality culture and the management of organization change", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. 14 No. 6, pp. 616-636. https://doi.org/10.1108/02656719710186236