The Status and Prospect of Change Management in Engineering Firms in Ethiopia: The Case of Stadia Engineering Works Consultant PLC
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Companies are in an external environment that is always changing and creating pressure on them. STADIA Engineering Works Consultant Plc is an Ethiopian based company established in 2010 and it is stated that the company has been actively offering a full range of tailored consulting solutions on consultancy services in road and bridge sector. Observing some gaps in human development and due to the current turbulent change factors it became necessary to study the status and prospectus of change management in Stadia so that the prevailing situation is identified, and proper change management design is set in.
Accordingly, in order to study the status and prospective of change management in Stadia, descriptive case study was made using questionnaire survey as a data collection instrument. The questionnaire was prepared adopting from Peggy Simonsen (Peggy Simonsen, 1997) works based on Development Culture of Peggy Simonsen, the 5Ps Strategic Change Model and Employee Involvement, EI. It was intended to measure whether the company is in a position to provide an environment to grow/change, whether the work force is properly managed, and whether the workforce is aware of the need to take the initiative for personal change and development. The evaluation criteria established by Peggy Simonsen (Peggy Simonsen, 1997) based on Performance and Development Index is adopted for the assessment. As a means of further verification and consolidation, physical observation of company documents and processes were made and also focus group discussion was made with the top management of the company.
Descriptive generalization was made analyzing the data using Excel packages, descriptive statistics, and Cronbach alpha. The analysis results indicated that Stadia Engineering Works Consultant is on the average at a moderate level of rating in its change management and/or organizational development. The company is specifically at super rated range in the areas of organizational system, organizational process and/or information flow but at a relatively weaker level, though still in the moderate range, in relation to human development( inspirational trainings, coaching). It is recommended that Stadia adopt intensive trainings, and research and development.