Organizational Renewal: The Management of Large-Scale Organizational Change in Norwegian Firms

A study of large organizational change projects was done in 228 private and public sector firms across Norway to examine the causes and consequences of renewal efforts and the strategies used by firm level management and union leaders to involve the workforce in the planning, design and execution of change. The research focus was on management\u27s choice of different forms of worker participation and their effects on the project outcomes. Data came from structured interviews with the top manager and an elected employee representative in each firm. The results showed that most major changes occurred in organizational structures and administration, undertaken primarily to increase efficiency and as a response to financial difficulties. In the private sector, the planning and design phases of change projects were dominated by top management, with very little involvement by non-managerial employees. Public sector employees played a larger role in the early phases of the projects, mostly through their elected representatives in legally prescribed forums. In both the private and public sector, there was more worker participation in the execution of change, both through elected representatives and more direct worker involvement of an ad hoc, firm-specific, nature. Neither the extent nor form of participation contributed to the success of the change projects. Instead, the project outcomes were primarily a function of external pressures experienced by the organization, the importance of renewal for organizational survival, and the flexibility of management and labor to accommodate to change. Resistance to change did not decrease as a function of worker participation, but it was influenced by the degree of labor-management agreement in the firm

Brukerkunnskap : - i nettverk, forskning og utviklingsarbeid

-Brukere med psykiske helseproblemer, fagfolk og forskere i Agder har sammen utviklet ny kunnskap gjennom arbeid og dialog i nettverk, der likeverd har vært et overordnet mål. Når fagfolk, brukere og forskere møtes, skjer det noe spennende og interessant. Taus kunnskap trer frem og blir satt ord på, svake stemmer blir sterkere og betydningsfulle. Gjennom dialog får vi en dypere innsikt og lærer av hverandre

Brukerkunnskap : - i nettverk, forskning og utviklingsarbeid

Brukere med psykiske helseproblemer, fagfolk og forskere i Agder har sammen utviklet ny kunnskap gjennom arbeid og dialog i nettverk, der likeverd har vært et overordnet mål. Når fagfolk, brukere og forskere møtes, skjer det noe spennende og interessant. Taus kunnskap trer frem og blir satt ord på, svake stemmer blir sterkere og betydningsfulle. Gjennom dialog får vi en dypere innsikt og lærer av hverandre

Brukerkunnskap : - i nettverk, forskning og utviklingsarbeid

-Brukere med psykiske helseproblemer, fagfolk og forskere i Agder har sammen utviklet ny kunnskap gjennom arbeid og dialog i nettverk, der likeverd har vært et overordnet mål. Når fagfolk, brukere og forskere møtes, skjer det noe spennende og interessant. Taus kunnskap trer frem og blir satt ord på, svake stemmer blir sterkere og betydningsfulle. Gjennom dialog får vi en dypere innsikt og lærer av hverandre

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Genetic comparison of salmon (Salmo salar L.) from the White Sea and the Atlantic ocean

Samples of salmon (Salmo salar) from River Kachkovka and R. Nilma in northem Russia were analysed by starch gel electrophoresis and compared to three Norwegian stocks, R. Neiden in northern Norway and R. Øyre and R. Hop on the west-coast. The aim of the study is to calibrate population genetic methods in Norwegian and Russian laboratories. The initial step in this process is to compare starch gel electrophoresis and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of salmon stocks, to facilitate comparison of data sets obtained by laboratories in Russia and Westem Europe thereby increasing the knowledge about the genetic relationship between salmon populations from the East-Atlantic and the Kola peninsula and the White Sea. The comparison includes the following polymorphic loci: AAT-4*, IDDH-2*. IDHP-3*, MDH- 3, 4*, MEP-2*, ESTD* as well as the newly discovered polymorphic loci FBAW-3* and TPI- 3*. Samples were run side by side on gels, and the results show that the alleles found in the Russian stocks are the same as those found in the Norwegian stocks, although the two electrophoretic methods lead to differences in designations of alleles. A polymorphism in ESTD* which involves a *94 allele was observed in salmon from the two Russian stocks and in R. Neiden. This allele was absent in the two other Norwegian stocks and in a major brood stock of farmed salmon in Norway. The IDHP-3* 116 allele was found in unusual high frequencies in the Russian stocks and in R. Neiden. Thus, the variability observed at these two loci gives some promise for the possibility in the future to distinguish salmon stocks from the northern part of Norway and Russia from stocks further south along the Norwegian coast