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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25827
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2014
viii, 125 p. : ill
Doctoral Dissertation
Academic theses
Text
eng
Lines, Brian
Sullivan, Kenneth
Wiezel, Avi
Badger, William
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-125)
Field of study: Construction
Owner organizations in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry are presented with a wide variety of project delivery approaches. Implementation of these approaches, while enticing due to their potential to save money, reduce schedule delays, or improve quality, is extremely difficult to accomplish and requires a concerted change management effort. Research in the field of organizational behavior cautions that perhaps more than half of all organizational change efforts fail to accomplish their intended objectives. This study utilizes an action research approach to analyze change message delivery within owner organizations, model owner project team readiness and adoption of change, and identify the most frequently encountered types of resistance from lead project members. The analysis methodology included Spearman's rank order correlation, variable selection testing via three methods of hierarchical linear regression, relative weight analysis, and one-way ANOVA. Key findings from this study include recommendations for communicating the change message within owner organizations, empirical validation of critical predictors for change readiness and change adoption among project teams, and identification of the most frequently encountered resistive behaviors within change implementation in the AEC industry. A key contribution of this research is the recommendation of change management strategies for use by change practitioners.
Civil Engineering
Architecture
construction
Construction Management
engineering
Organizational change
resistance to change
Organizational change
Organizational effectiveness
Analysis of variance
Construction industry--Management.
Action research approach to implementation of APDMs within owner organizations strategic management and overcoming resistance to change in the AEC industry