Measure of Remedy, Mapping of Repair: An Organizational Adaptation Strategy Survey for Higher Education (Poster 30)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Saturday 3:20 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Topics in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodology and customizable instrument for the measurement of organizational adaptation in higher education. The instrument offers administrators and researchers a snapshot of how their organization has changed. To create the Organizational Adaptation Assessment Survey, this paper builds from Author’s (2021) work that proposed a typology of organizational adaptation strategies. These strategies are: decentralization, generalization, specialization, formalization, and inaction. The instrument can be tailored to the needs of any unit, program, or institution. The dire need for remedy and repair in higher education across multiple systems simultaneously requires new ways to understand and evaluate organizational change. This paper provides a significant contribution to applied and theoretical change literature.

Author

• Jacob Bruce Hertzog, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville