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Academic Articles on Human Resource Management

woman_writing These academic articles have been written by TimelessTime consultants over the past years as part of various academic studies. Many have been published externally and others not. They are of an academic form and discuss theory and empirical research. They are comprehensively referenced and form a basis for further study. Managers and other practitioners in HRM and organisational psychology preferring a more practical style of writing might look in Articles, White Papers and AV Presentations in the Knowledge Base.

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The Role of Leadership in Organisational Change	Organisational change doesn’t just happen (Crozier & Friedberg, 1980). It is something that humans make happen. We recognise that leaders cause change and we respect ‘great men’ who do great things with organisations (Stogdill, 1974). But we also recognise that leadership is also more abstract concept, existing without presence of a central actor (Bolden 2011). This paper investigates how the role of leadership can best be understood in organisation change. Initially it makes a bold statement, postulating a modified input-process-output (IPO) model (Steinder, 1972; McGrath 2000; Hackman 1987) in which leadership plays the role of enabler but later it introduces a second view that positions leadership styles and approaches by coordinates on an X-Y model. Read the full article in your browser