MSOL-5104: Leadership: Change, Crises, and Communication

Holten, A., Hancock, G. R., & Bøllingtoft, A. (2020). Studying the importance of change leadership and change management in layoffs, mergers, and closures. Management Decision, 58(3), 393-409.
This article examines the critical role of leadership in times of organizational change. It examines the importance of leadership communicating, involving, informing, and supporting stakeholders associated with the organization.

Jaroensutiyotin, J., Wang, Z., Ling, B., & Chen, Y. (2019). Change leadership and individual innovative behavior in crisis contexts: An attentional perspective. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 47(4), 1-12.
This article examines how leadership behavior affects the innovative behaviors of employees during a period of crisis in the organization. A model for change is presented that examines the benefit of supervisory support during a change situation.

Klein, G., & Eckhaus, E. (2017). Sensemaking and sense giving as predicting organizational crisis. Risk Management, 19(3), 225-244.
This article explores how senior and non-senior employees engage in sensemaking and sense-giving activities prior to and during a crisis. The findings showed that employees could sense the impending crisis and applied informal scanning methods in an attempt at sensemaking of their unstable reality.

Osiyevskyy, O., Shirokova, G., & Ritala, P. (2020). Exploration and exploitation in crisis environment: Implications for level and variability of firm performance. Journal of Business Research, 114, 227-239.
In this work, you examine a framework that discusses exploration and exploration during a period of organizational crisis. The authors investigate how the severity of the crisis impacts the performance level within the organization.

Schmidt, J. E. T., & Groeneveld, S. M. (2021). Setting sail in a storm: Leadership in times of cutbacks. Public Management Review, 23(1), 112-134.
This paper explores what type of leadership public managers engage in during cutbacks. This is a qualitative case study involving cutbacks in three public organizations. It shows how cutbacks trigger centralized decision-making and top-down planned change processes, reducing public managers’ room to maneuver.

Mind Mapping. (2021).
Mind mapping is a very useful tool that enables you to capture the thought process that happens in your brain. The process of mind mapping enables you to acquire knowledge, think clearly, and create new ideas.