The Use of Adaptive Leadership and Adaptive Learning Strategies in Organizations Facing Market Extinction

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Title: The Use of Adaptive Leadership and Adaptive Learning Strategies in Organizations Facing Market Extinction
Author(s): Egmon, Jean M.
Issue Date: 1999
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): Ward, James G.
Department of Study: Education
Discipline: Education
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name: Ed.D.
Degree Level: Dissertation
Keyword(s): Psychology, Industrial
Language: eng
Abstract: This qualitative study examines three cases of business organizations that successfully adapted to radically changed environments. The study acknowledges the situational nature of organizational adaptation by examining environmental influences and factors of organizational context, including leadership and learning, as both impetuses for adaptation and as resources for doing the necessary adaptive work. In particular, the use of leadership and learning strategies, along with other factors, used in the adaptive process are explored through interviews and artifacts collected from employees who were part of each organization during its adaptive period. Learning as an underlying process for adaptation is discussed in depth.
Graduation Semester: 1999
Type of Resource: text
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