?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Responses+of+senior+managers+to+externally+imposed+change%3A+A+study+of+senior+executives+in+the+Queensland+public+sector&rft.creator=Matthews%2C+Judith+Helen&rft.subject=Organisational+change&rft.subject=Public+administration&rft.subject=Government+executives&rft.description=Managers+have+important+roles+in+organisations+as+it+is+through+managers+that+organizations+establish%2C+maintain%2C+and+develop+relationships+with+their+environments.+While+there+is+a+wealth+of+prescriptive+literature+about+how+managers+should+behave+in+situations+of+change%2C+surprisingly+little+research+that+has+been+carried+out+with+senior+managers+and+their+actual+responses+to+change.+The+purpose+of+this+research+is+to+investigate+the+responses+of+senior+managers+to+externally+imposed+change+in+fast+changing+environments.+Specifically+the+focus+is+how+senior+managers+respond+to%0D%0Achange+in+changing+environments+and+how+they+respond+in+different+changing+environments.%0D%0ABecause+of+the+exploratory+nature+of+this+investigation%2C+the+objective+was+to+develop+a+framework+which+could+explore+the+responses+of+senior+managers+within+changing+environments.+A+conceptual+framework+based+on+the+open+systems+model+of%0D%0Asystems%2Fenvironment+interaction+of+the+individual+managers+and+the+relationship+with+environment+was+developed+from+early+work+on+purposeful+systems%2C+and+idealseeking%0D%0Asystems.+Theoretical+premises+and+propositions+were+developed+and+used+to+investigate+and+analyse+the+responses+of+senior+managers.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F107121%2F1%2FT%2528BS%2529%2520215.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Matthews%2C+Judith+Helen+(2000)+Responses+of+senior+managers+to+externally+imposed+change%3A+A+study+of+senior+executives+in+the+Queensland+public+sector.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F107121%2F&rft.rights=Judith+Helen+Matthews