Change Management in China - An application of Meta-Strategies Practice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Change processes and projects have traditionally used a variety of strategies to ensure initiation, engagement of participants, and successful implementation. General strategies (meta-strategies) of change identified by the literature include use of information, values, power and, more recently, trust as "meta-strategies" associated with change management efforts. This article outlines the underlying philosophy and rationale of the four meta-strategies and outlines the perceived importance and frequency of use of each set of strategies in China. Findings indicate that, in China, values-driven strategies are perceived as most important in relation to change success and are also the most frequently used in practice. Trust based strategies, while declared to be the least important of the four meta-strategies, are the second most frequently used in actual change management practice. Power, an underlying theme in Chinese culture where position and hierarchy are perceived in general to be critical, is third in declared importance and fourth (last) in frequency of use while information is second in declared importance but third in actual frequency of use. Results of the study suggest an increased balanced use of all four of the strategies for effective change management
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".