An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study

As organisations, at one time or another, must go through organisational change to improve performance in order to respond to changing environments, managing change has become an inevitable part of organisational life. While past literature includes both the planned and emergent approaches to change...

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Main Author: Kengvibul, Wannawit
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22980/
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description As organisations, at one time or another, must go through organisational change to improve performance in order to respond to changing environments, managing change has become an inevitable part of organisational life. While past literature includes both the planned and emergent approaches to change, the planned approach that has been more congruent with the Anglo-American culture is given more prominence. However, recent failings of the Anglo-American approach have increased calls for an alternative in the form of the European or emergent approach. The theories and models under each approach formulated by past researchers are analysed, accompanied by three success cases of European companies and comparisons with Lufthansa. The analysis of Lufthansa’s change management process reveals that both change approaches can work together instead of just on its own to achieve transformation success; however, organisations must carefully choose their change approach with respect to the external, internal, and temporal environments.
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spelling nottingham-229802018-01-11T05:18:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22980/ An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study Kengvibul, Wannawit As organisations, at one time or another, must go through organisational change to improve performance in order to respond to changing environments, managing change has become an inevitable part of organisational life. While past literature includes both the planned and emergent approaches to change, the planned approach that has been more congruent with the Anglo-American culture is given more prominence. However, recent failings of the Anglo-American approach have increased calls for an alternative in the form of the European or emergent approach. The theories and models under each approach formulated by past researchers are analysed, accompanied by three success cases of European companies and comparisons with Lufthansa. The analysis of Lufthansa’s change management process reveals that both change approaches can work together instead of just on its own to achieve transformation success; however, organisations must carefully choose their change approach with respect to the external, internal, and temporal environments. 2009-09 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22980/1/Lufthansa_-_Wannawit_Kengvibul_-_Sept_2009.pdf Kengvibul, Wannawit (2009) An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title_full An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title_fullStr An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title_full_unstemmed An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title_short An Investigation of Change Management at Lufthansa: A Case Study
title_sort investigation of change management at lufthansa: a case study
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22980/