STRATEGIC CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION PROCESS IN NIGERIAN ORGANIZATIONS

Godwin Nosakhare

doi:10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i9.2018.1214

Authors

Osagie, Godwin Nosakhare, Ph.D Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i9.2018.1214

Keywords:

Change, Strategic Change, Organizational Transformation, Organizational Transformation Process

Abstract [English]

Today’s organizations are confronted with the deepest downturn since the great depressions after The World War II. These distortions have necessitated the need for organizations to consider the issue of organizational change. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of strategic change and organizational transformation process in Nigerian organizations; using selected companies from the Telecommunications industry in Nigeria as a case of study. The data collection tool employed by the researcher was the questionnaire approach and the sampling technique employed by the researcher was the Taro Yemmane sampling technique while the hypothesis formulated was tested using the Z-test statistics. The results from the test of the hypothesis showed that strategic change in the Nigerian Telecommunications industry leads to successful organizational transformation. Based on this, the researcher concluded that organizational change can usher in a host of unwelcome and unavoidable side effects and result in the need for the organization to improve productivity, increase morale or re-define the culture of the organization. It was against this backdrop that the researcher recommended that employees need to be allowed to actively take part in meetings and workshops at the onset where the envisaged changes are discussed and management needs to solicit constant feedback from staff throughout the process and take their views into account when restructuring.

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