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The purpose of this study is to identify perceptual differences between hierarchical levels in organizations in general and in university departments in particular, and to analyze their consequences on the relationships between the need for change, the implementation of change, and the assessment of the success of change.
Three different models are developed and tested. The first model examines the amount of change in the various aspects of change at different types of departments. The second model examines the factor structure of the various actors in the system. The third model tests separately for each perceiver the magnitude of relationship between the different aspects of change and the success of change.
The implications of the models and their empirical tests to future studies of organizational change are discussed and elaborated.
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Neumann, Y. The perception of change in university departments. Res High Educ 11, 45–58 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00991397
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00991397