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Massango, Glecio Ernestina (2022) The role of organisational improvisation in companies objectives: perceptions from people working in Ireland. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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Abstract
This research aimed to capture empirical evidence on the Irish professionals’ attitudes towards improvisation and assess to what extent socio-demographic factors could play an essential role in explaining improvisation in organisations. For this purpose, the time frame of 2020 to 2022 was considered.
An online survey was launched nationally in Ireland and responded to by 246 participants who worked in were working in Ireland when the survey took place. The survey took place from 1st to 10th July 2022 nationwide.
For the analyses, four aspects of improvisation were considered, (1) the rate of the role of improvisation in organisations; (2) the extent to which internal or external factors provoke improvisation; (3) the level of the leaders’ encouragement to improvisation and (4) the perceived level of success. Additionally, few demographic features were considered for the analyses, including (1) the age of the respondents; (2) the age of the organisations; (3) the size of the organisations, (4) the length of experience in the organisation; (5) the gender of professionals; (6) the sector of work and (7) the level of influence in the organisation as well as the geographic region they are from. Similarly, perceived democracy and the perceived level 1 of influence were also analysed regarding its impact on improvisation.
The overall conclusion is that, on average, people working in Ireland are more likely to see benefits from improvisation than negative aspects; they consider external factors as more likely to provoke improvisation than internal; they think of their organisational leaders as more encouraging improvisation than not and; they are significantly optimistic about they improvisation skills. However, the extent to which they assume these positions varies according to the different demographic factors under analysis.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Supervisors: | Name Email Cullen, Brendan UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | improvisation; organisational improvisation; improvisation aspects; demographic factors; Irish professionals |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Issues of Labour and Work > Classes of Labour H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Effective Communication |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Master of Science in Management |
| Depositing User: | Tamara Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2023 12:24 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2023 12:24 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6420 |
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