Year
2003
Authors
Abstract
In today’s era of hyper competition and change, one of the crucial challenges facing organizations is to build sustainable competitive organizations. Changing environment necessitates a change in strategic initiatives. The change in strategic initiatives like mergers and acquisitions, new product and market strategy, joint ventures, strategic alliances, diversification, and outsourcing calls for organizational restructuring and emplace an integrative mechanism that cements this changes. Few empirical studies have been done to date regarding the role of organizational character during an organizational restructuring process. Organizational character which is embedded in the vision, mission, goals, values and leadership can be explained in terms of history, culture, collective memory, knowledge, politics, habits, emotions and policies of the organization. An extensive in-depth study of four large, complex manufacturing organizations and market leaders in France and India, support our belief that the role of organizational character defined by human resource policies and the linkage between the vision, mission, goals, values and leadership of the organization are the key success factors during an organizational restructuring process. Based on both specific policies and the actual practices as perceived by the top management (those who formulate those policies) and middle management (those that implement them), the article presents a contingency framework, which offers valuable insights of the role of organizational character during an restructuring process.
SOM, A. (2003). Building Sustainable Organisations through Restructuring: The Role of Organisational Character in France and India. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, pp. 2-16.