TEAM WORK APPROACH TO STRATEGIES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS
Abstract
This study on team work approach to strategies of change management in selected Nigerian manufacturing firms focused on establishing the extent to which strategies for change management are compatible with teamwork approach to change. The study adopted the survey research design, in which ten (10) manufacturing companies in the South-Eastern Nigeria were studied. The population of the study was 13,623 and the sample size was 598. The sampling selection was the stratified sampling method. A self-developed structured questionnaire and oral interview guide were the research instruments used for the study. Data collected were presented descriptively using charts, simple frequency and percentage distribution, mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested using the Chi-Square test statistic. The major findings of the study were that strategies for change management are significantly compatible with teamwork approach to change management in Nigerian manufacturing firms (X2cal = 13.78 > X2critical = 9.49, p < 0.05). In conclusion, successful organizations today know that teams make a big difference in achieving strategic change goals. Teams that are strong, flexible, and productive could be the competitive edge needed to produce better results, achieve higher quality, lower costs for the organization. Hence it is widely held that manufacturing firms that adopt teamwork approach to strategies of change management out-perform others that do not. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that teamwork approach should be adopted by manufacturing firms as an integral concept within their organizations, particularly as interventionist strategy to the management of change.References
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Allcock, D. (1999), Highflying Industrial Essential Guide: The Essential Guide to your First Management and How to make a Success of it. London, Industrial Society: Stylus Publishing.
Armstrong, S. (1993), Team Building: Issues and Alternatives. Wesley, Addison.
Armstrong, M. (2006) A Handbook: Human Resources Management Practice. London, Cogan Publishing.
Bacon, N. and Blyton, P. (2005) Worker Response to Team working: Exploring Employee Attributions of Managerial Motives. An International Journal of Human Resources Management 16(2), 20-45.
Baker, E. (1988). Managing Human Performances in Juran’s Quality control Handbook. Gryna New York: McGraw-Hill.
Barry, R. and Rhonda, B. (1990). Effective Human Relations Organizations. Boston, Houghton: Mifflin Company.
Belbin, R.M. (1981) Management Teams: Why They Succeeds Or Fail. London, Butterworth: Heinemann.
Belbin, R. M. (1993). Team Roles at Work. London, Butterworth: Heinemann.
Blake, R. R. and Mouton, J. S. (1998). Spectacular Team Work. New York: Wiley.
Bouncken, R. B., Imcharoen, A. O. and Klaasen-Van-Husen, W. (2007). What does Collectivism Mean for Leadership and Teamwork Performance? An Empirical Study in Professionals Service Firms. Journal of International Business and Economics, 7(2), 5-9.
Brull, H. (1996). Selection in the TQM Environment: What’s Needed and How Do We Know Who’s Got it? Journal of Public Personnel Management, 25(4), 34 - 45.
Chaudron, D. (2012). Teams and Team building: The Journal of Organization Change. Improving organizations, Teams and Leaders, 6(9), 4-7. www.organizedchange.com
Claxton, G. L. (1998). Knowing Without Knowing Why: Investigating Human Intuition The Psychologist, 11(2), 17-22.
Dessler, C.S. (2011) Organization And Management A Contingency Approach. (12th edition) New Jersey Prentice Hall Inc
Douglas, M. (2003) “Why soft skills are an Essential part of the hard World of Business” Manager the British Journal of Administration Management.
Dubey, S. K. and SanjeevBansal (2012) “Barriers in Implementing Radical/Incremental Changes in Manufacturing – Based Government Organizations”. Australian Journal of Business and Management research 2(2).
Edmondson, A. C. (1999) “Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior In Work Teams” Administrative Science Quarterly Journal. 44(350-383).
Eric, S. and Ken, D.(1990), Team Organization: An Enduring Competitive Advantage, Chichester, and Wiley.
Ezigbo, C.A. (2011) Advanced Management Theory and Application (3rd Edition) Enugu: Immaculate Publication Ltd.
Fajana, S. (2002) Human Resources Management. Lagos: Labofin and Company.
Glassop, L.L. (2002) The Organizational Benefits of Teams in Human Relations. Burlington: John Wiley & Sons.
Harkins, P. (2008): Leadership Techniques for Building High- Performance Teams. Burlington: John Wiley & Sons.
Hooper, A. and Potter, J. (2003) High Performance Team Development, Available in http://www.kms.org/ca/www/wncyclopedia102/
Jones, G. George, J. and Hill, C. (1998), Contemporary Management, Boston, Irwin: Heinemann.
Jos, B. and Hootegerm, G. (1999), “The Tyranny of a Team Ideology”, Organization Studies, 13(14), 4-9.
Judge, P.C. (2000) “Change Agents”. Fast Company, November.
Katzenbach, F. and Smith, A. (2002), Organizational Behaviors, Spain, McGraw – Hill Education Shopper, Hangers.
Kolfschoten, G.L, Nederman, F, Briggs, R.O. and Devreede, G. (2012) “Organizational Change and Development Facilitation Roles and Responsibilities for Sustained Collaboration Support in Organizations.” The Journal of Management Information Systems 28(4).
Kolzlowski, S. W. and Bell, B. S. (2003) “Work Groups and Teams in Organizations” In Borma, W. C, IIgen, D.R. and Klimoski, R.J. (Eds), Hand books of Psychology, Wiley: Hoboken, NJ.
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Lantz, A. and Brav, A. (2007) “Job design for learning in work groups”, Journal of workplace learning. 5.
Lee, C. (1991) Followership: The Essence of Leadership Training.
Lewin, K. (1951) Field Theory in Social Science. New York: Harper and Row.
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Moorhead, G. and Griffin, R.W. (1995) Organizational Behaviors (4th Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Publishers.
Mullins, L.J. (2010) Management and Organizational Behavior (9th Edition), England: Prentice Hall.
Nelson, D. L. and Quick, J.C. (2005) Understanding Organizational Behaviour (2nd Edition) Ohio, South-Western: Globus Printing – Inc.
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Robert, K, and Angelo, C. (2002). Organizational Behaviour. London: McGraw – Hill Publishing.
Robbins, S.P. and Judge, T.A. (2007). Organizational Behavior (12th Edition). New Delhi: Prentice-Hall.
Senge, P. M. (1990) The Fifth Discipline: The Cut and Practice of The Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday Currency.
Sirken, H. L., Keenan, P. and Jackson, A. (2005). “The Hard Side of Management: Lead Change Successfully”. Harvard Business Review, 2(14), 3-7.
Somech, A, Desivilya, H., and Lidogoster, A. (2009).”Team Conflict Management and Team Effectiveness the Effects of Task Interdependence and Learning Identification”: Journal of Organizational Behaviour. 6(8), 4-9.
Strozniak, P. (2000), “Teams at work”; Industry Week Magazine, September.
Ugbam, O.C. (2011). The Core Functions of Human Resource Management; Enugu: Chirol Ventures Publishers.
Vander Wiele, T. and Brown, A. (2002) “Quality Management over a Decade (A Longitudinal Study)” International Journal of Quality and Rehability management 19.
Weighrich, H. and Koontz, H. (2005) Management: A Global Perspective, New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
West, M.A. Hirst, G. Richter, A and Shipton, H (2004) “Twelve steps to Heaven: Successfully Managing Change through Development Innovation Teams’, European Journal of work and Organizational Psychology.13.
Wilson, J. (1998)” Building Teams-with Attitude”, Professional Manager Sept.
Yamane, T. (1964) Statistics: An Introductory Analysis, New York: Harper and Row.
Zhang, Z (2000) “Developing a performance Model of Quality Management Methods and Evaluating Their Effects on Business”: Total Quality Management, 11.
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2016-06-01
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KELVIN-ILOAFU, Lovlyn Ekeowa.
TEAM WORK APPROACH TO STRATEGIES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS.
GOUNI Journal of Management and Social Sciences, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 89-106, june 2016.
ISSN 2550-7265. Available at: <http://journal.gouni.edu.ng/index.php/fmss/article/view/15>. Date accessed: 14 may 2018.
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Team work; strategies for change management; manufacturing firms
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