Organizations as Social Networks: The Role of the Compliance Officer as Agent of Change in Implementing Rules and Codes of Conduct

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Author(s): Robert J. Blomme (Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands)and Jan Morsch (Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 12
Source title: Organizational Change Management Strategies in Modern Business
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aslı Goksoy (American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9533-7.ch006

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Management Science

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This chapter examines the role of the change manager in implementing compliance rules and codes of conduct within organizations. Various lines of enquiry from sociology and constructivist psychology are used to develop a perspective on organizations and organizational change. The role of the change manager is then discussed based on this perspective. In developing this perspective, various insights are offered that can be used by compliance officers and managers responsible for implementing rules and codes of conduct in order to reflect on their own actions. The chapter argues that equivocality and legitimacy are important conditions for successful implementation. The chapter also suggests that the implementation of rules and codes of conduct is not an activity generic to an organization, but a set of interventions generally specifically targeted at the individual, with the group serving as a point of leverage for change.

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