Homegrown process improvement employing a change message model

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 487-510

  Hammond, Gregory D ^a   Gresch, Eric B ^b   Vitale, Dean C ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change management; Communication; Organizational change; Participation; Public sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960639800     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534811111144638     Document Type: Article

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