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Change Management Theories: A Study on COMAIR, South Africa


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1 Dean, School of Business, University of Bolton, Academic Centre, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
     

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Change could be conceptualized and categorized into two ways. The first is the rational and strategic process approach in which organizations identify the need for change and design an action plan to implement change. The second is the evolutionary selection in which the organizations chose to resist the change happening around them. COMAIR Ltd., a leading airlines company based in South Africa has initiat ed l argescal e changes i n structure, process and operations during the 1980s, which continued in 1990s and early 2000. The initiatives have been found to be ev ol ut i onary i n nat ure. The present article has attempted to analyze the change process at COMAIR from the viewpoint of popul ar c hange manageme nt models.
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Authors

Indranil Bose
Dean, School of Business, University of Bolton, Academic Centre, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Sachin Gupta
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract


Change could be conceptualized and categorized into two ways. The first is the rational and strategic process approach in which organizations identify the need for change and design an action plan to implement change. The second is the evolutionary selection in which the organizations chose to resist the change happening around them. COMAIR Ltd., a leading airlines company based in South Africa has initiat ed l argescal e changes i n structure, process and operations during the 1980s, which continued in 1990s and early 2000. The initiatives have been found to be ev ol ut i onary i n nat ure. The present article has attempted to analyze the change process at COMAIR from the viewpoint of popul ar c hange manageme nt models.

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