Employing the lens of institutional entrepreneurship to help understand the logic of organizational change management, we conduct an analysis of the impact of Appreciative Inquiry® in a multi-unit division of a large, university-based health system. Our results indicate that, although there may have been some marginal impact in temporarily reducing an observed decline in employee commitment indicators, the program failed to sustain positive impacts over the longer term. Implications for the study of organizational change as the action of institutional entrepreneurs are briefly discussed.
This paper explores recent empirical findings that highlight the importance of decoration, particularly in forms that may be described as a kind of spirituality or spiritual expression, and the significance these findings have for thinking about how stakeholders cooperate to create value. We highlight how this phenomenon may become important for thinking about organizations -especially how spirituality may play a role in fostering stakeholder relations that generate more value for all those involved as well as limit transaction costs. Given our focus in exploring this phenomenon and highlighting decoration's relevance, we focus on its core findings, outline connections to the spirituality and stakeholder theory literatures, and note promising directions for future research.
We review the contribution of psychological science to the field of business ethics by discussing three major shifts that have occurred in scholarly work in the area. The first shift occurred from the cognitive‐developmental perspective, at a time when moral reasoning was thought to be a rational mental process. The second shift advanced the role of emotional, intuitive, and largely automatic processes in moral decision making. And the third, complementary shift highlighted the role of small changes in one's environment that can encourage ethical behavior. We then propose a fourth shift, suggesting that the field of business ethics could benefit from an expanded definition of ethical behavior based on recent findings in moral psychology which support the notion that ethics play a critical role in binding groups together into functional social units.
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