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Organizational outcomes of leadership style and resistance to change (Part Two)
Authors: Appelbaum Steven H. , Degbe Medea Cesar , MacDonald Owen , NGUYEN-QUANG Thai-Son 
Published: March 2015

Purpose– Organizations must react rapidly to evolving environments by engaging in change, ranging from minor adjustments to radical transformation. Many obstacles are encountered on the path towards achieving positive organizational outcomes, among which resistance to change prevents the level of mobilization critical to achieve a successful transformation. The purpose of this two-part paper is to offer a review of the body of knowledge explaining how leadership styles may address resistance to change in order to achieve desired organizational outcomes. For this purpose, multiple organizational concepts are visited and linked through a synthesized model proposing causality relationships between the various elements.Design/methodology/approach– A range of recently published empirical and practitioner research papers were reviewed to analyse the relationships in search of the variables that affect resistance during a major organizational change. In order to synthesize and bridge many concepts that are often studied separately, an overall model is proposed to help establish causal relationships between the elements of interest influencing organizational outcomes, in the context of a change.Findings– Leadership acts as an input at multiple levels, influencing organizational outcomes both directly – by continuously shaping employee attitude throughout change – and indirectly – by regulating the antecedents and moderators of their predisposition to change. These subsequently shape the extent of resistance to change, which translates from the perception of, commitment to and involvement in the change process. The interaction of the organizational environment with these factors ultimately determines the organizational outcome resulting from the change initiatives.Research limitations/implications– The model must be tested in another empirical article to measure its effectiveness. The complexity of the model may, however, hinder the ability to successfully correlate all the concepts.Practical implications– The paper suggests an overall framework that may help leaders and organizational development practitioners identify the major factors which may be considered during a change initiative or a transformation.Social implications– This paper highlights the multi-dimensional role of leadership style in successfully achieving organizational changes. Leaders’ emotional aptitude to influence their followers and employees’ natural and contextual predisposition to change transact to shape organizational outcomes. These social elements must be carefully assessed not only prior to embarking on a change implementation, but also to proactively invest in psychologically directed organizational training and development, at all hierarchical levels.Originality/value– The synthesis model is the novel contribution of the paper. It proposes an organized approach to relate multiple close yet distinct concepts that have so far been predominantly discussed separately.
The role of truck driver on sustainable transportation and logistics
Authors: Dubey Rameshwar , Gunasekaran Angappa 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to identify traits and skills of a truck driver for sustainable transportation, develop a theoretical framework and outline further research directions.

Design/methodology/approach
– The present study undertakes a review of extant literature and appreciative inquiry, a quasi-ethnographic approach to identify traits and skills of a truck driver. Further, using a pragmatic approach, a theoretical framework has been developed.

Findings
– The study proposes a theoretical framework, which can be further used for formulating training modules for truck drivers for sustainable transportation and logistics.

Research limitations/implications
– The present framework needs to be statistically validated using survey data and second, the proposition of the theoretical framework needs to be tested using hierarchical regression analysis. Second, in the study the authors have used AI. However, the authors have only interviewed selected senior police officials. This may lead to bias and to further strengthen the present study, one needs to identify other regulatory authorities and human resource managers of transportation companies. However, in Indian subcontinent situation the trucks are primarily owned by unorganized sector. Hence, the owners may have five to ten trucks and this case there is no human resource manager. However, in such case an interview with truck owners may provide a useful insight.

Practical implications
– The study has outlined recommendations on the basis of a literature review of extant literature and appreciative inquiry. The recommendations can further help policy makers or technical bodies run by a government agencies or privately managed to develop a training module for truck drivers to meet the future challenges of sustainable transportation.

Social implications
– This research is related to truck drivers and their welfare as well as how they can contribute to sustainable transportation and logistics.

Originality/value
– This research attempts to identify traits and skills of a truck driver for a sustainable transportation and logistics, and develops a theoretical framework and outline further research directions. This particular study ventures into new domain (the role of truck driver's role in sustainable logistics and transportation).
Embrace change effectively to achieve organizational excellence and effectiveness
Authors: Rao M.S. 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to embrace change effectively to achieve organizational development.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper outlines the case studies on two turnaround leaders – Alan Mulally and Lou Gerstner. It explains various aspects of organizational change and development. It unveils a blueprint to embrace change effectively.

Findings
– It underscores that the only thing constant in the current global business environment is change and competition. It enlightens that change requires a new mindset, tool set and skill set. The only successful leaders are the ones who accept and mould themselves as per the changing times and technologies.

Practical implications
– The methodologies adopted by turnaround leaders can be applied to any type of organizational change, in any industry and any size of organization.

Social implications
– The social implications of this research suggests that turnaround leaders can do much better by communicating clearly to overcome resistance to lead change effectively.

Originality/value
– It differentiates between change and growth. It justifies the need to effect change swiftly in the present dynamic business environment. It concludes that change is inevitable to achieve organizational excellence and effectiveness.
Industry's role in employability
Authors: Iyer Vidya M. , Dave Kartik 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The world is seeing a large deficit in employable workforce. An employable workforce is developed with appropriate combination of academic and practical skills. Practical skills are better developed with industry intervention rather than in classrooms. Changing trends of economic activity have steadily changed the business thought. The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of industry in developing employability by studying employability from the value chain and “Demand-Supply” of workforce models. The scope is limited to Indian context. This paper is a part of the research on factors influencing employability in India.

Design/methodology/approach
– Literature review, expert interviews and authors’ own experiences and understanding.

Findings
– It has been found that most of the countries in the world are facing a shortage of skilled and employable workforce. We examined various literature content and studied specific instances in the Industry. The study has shown that in the cases where industry has been actively involved in identifying training needs, the supply of manpower has been adequate. So, it is found that industry's role in employability is crucial and impacts on other macro policies for human development.

Social implications
– As this paper is a part of a larger study on “Factors impacting employability in India,” it is of paramount importance to Indian researchers, students and policy makers. The paper and the research are oriented to identifying causes to the problem of employability, so that systemic changes can be identified.

Originality/value
– This paper is based on large amount of literature that is existing in various sources. All the literature has been thoroughly read and assimilated. Suitable references have cited and others have been acknowledged. Most importantly this is an original work of the authors and their views.
How exceptional managers use everyday psychology to develop their people
Authors: Axelrod Wendy 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to identify an important and often overlooked approach to talent development: managers who apply everyday psychology with their people to drive significant growth.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper is based upon: years of consulting with managers, indentifying how to grow people in significant ways; original research of the practices of Exceptional Development Managers; and expert recommended approaches.

Findings
– Companies undervalue the important role managers can play in talent development. Managers are well positioned to significantly develop people, yet most do not. This paper describes the five actions managers can take using everyday psychology to help drive employees’ development.

Practical implications
– While every company strives for a fully skilled workforce, for the majority, this is far from reality. With greater investments being made to companywide talent development, it is wise to also invest in equipping managers to turn everyday work into everyday development for their employees. Because the development breakthroughs can be daunting, managers who know how to practically apply everyday psychology have a significant edge. HR departments, company leadership, and individual managers can benefit greatly from leveraging these practices.

Originality/value
– Manager's involvement in employee development is not new, this just has not gone far enough. Frequently employee development is viewed as needing to be a sideline to getting results. Further, companies are often not relying on the development driven by managers to make a significant impact on their talent development objectives. Yet, managers are key to developing people, and making psychological principles readily adaptable by managers unlocks their path forward.
Wealth sharing for success in Vietnam: fishing for the net gain
Authors: McCornac Dennis C. , Cullen Anne 
Published: March 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to posit that orthodox analysis of government–business and business–business organizations in Vietnam involves subtle constituency and “beneath-the-surface” relationships, largely ignored in reviews of the post-Fixed graphic economy, but are nevertheless worthy of inspection.Design/methodology/approach– Following a review of the theoretical terrain regarding Vietnamese political-business-economy, the authors provide an alternative view showing how the business sector has developed net(work)s of cooperative mechanisms to work with the Vietnamese Government and its bureaucrats.Findings– While a delicate interplay of politics can be identified in the net(work) relationships, such constituency politics do not seek to challenge the existing authority of the state or the ruling elite. Rather, the small-scale constituency politics are constructed to operate within the dominant polity and work with corporatist strategies to secure personal and group gain. The strategies used are unique in that they exhibit sympathy with socialism, yet succeed in exploiting the pro-entrepreneur characteristics of Fixed graphic.Originality/value– This paper supports the analysis that the dominant political culture in Vietnam is, and will continue to be, dominated by the Communist Party of Vietnam machine. However, the authors have shed light on the “below-the-surface” political activity that exists and persists throughout the business–business and government–business relationships in Vietnam and present evidence of the pluralist behaviors in these relationships that have hitherto been bypassed in orthodox state-qua-state analysis of Vietnamese polity. Taken as a whole, the existence and persistence of the net(work)s encourages a conclusion that the polity of Vietnam is a more complex process than previously thought.
Experimental detection of an early developed crack in rotor-bearing systems using an AMB
Authors: Chasalevris Athanasios C. , Papadopoulos Chris A. 
Published: March 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a method for early crack detection in rotating shafts. A rotor-bearing system, consisting of an elastic rotor mounted on fluid film bearings, is used to detect the presence of the crack at a depth of around 5 percent of shaft radius. The fluid film bearings, the shaft and the crack introduce coupled bending vibrations both in the horizontal and vertical plane. Experimental time series of the rotor composite response under normal steady-state operation are uncoupled, to develop a signal processing procedure able to reveal the presence of the crack.Design/methodology/approach– The variation of the coupling property that a crack (breathing or not) or a cut (always open) introduces into the system and the localization of the coupling in the time domain is a concept proposed as a means to detect transverse surface cracks in rotating shafts. This consideration is combined with the concept of external excitation for the development of an additional crack-sensitive response during system normal operation. Using an external excitation of an active magnetic bearing of specific duration, frequency and amplitude, the method uses this coupling variation during rotation.Findings– The method is simple, quick and effective for early crack detection, being able to detect cracks as shallow as 5 percent of the shaft radius while the system is under normal operation, and can even be applied real-time. Experimental verification uses a simple elastic rotor with a cut mounted on fluid film bearings, with the cut producing similar coupling phenomena as an opened crack. Experimental results are encouraging.Originality/value– The method used is simple, quick and effective for early crack detection, being able to detect cracks as shallow as 5 percent of the shaft radius while the system is under normal operation, and can even be applied real-time.
Interfacial stresses analysis of damaged structures strengthened with bonded prestressed FRP plate having variable fiber spacing
Authors: Bensaid Ismail , Kerboua Bachir , Abdelmajid Cheikh 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a new improved solution and a new model to predict both shear and normal interfacial stress in simply supported beams strengthened with bonded prestressed FRP laminates by taking into account the fiber volume fraction spacing that play an important role on the interfacial stresses concentration.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study has been conducted by using analytical approaches for interfacial stresses in plated beams. The analysis is based on the deformation compatibility approach where both the shear and normal stresses are assumed to be invariant across the adhesive layer thickness. In addition, an unrealistic restriction of the same curvatures in the RC beam and FRP panel commonly used in most of the existing studies is released in the present theoretical formulation.

Findings
– To verify the analytical model, the present predictions are compared first with those of (Malek et al., 1998; Smith and Teng, 2001) in the case of the absence of the prestressing force; for the second time, the present method is compared with that developed by (Al-Emrani and Kliger, 2006; Benachour et al., 2008) in the case where only the prestressing force is applied. From the presented results, it can be seen that the present solution agree closely with the other methods in the literature.

Originality/value
– The paper puts in evidence a new originality approach theory, taking into account the mechanical load, and the prestressed FRP plate model having variable fiber spacing which considers a strength rigidity and resistance of the damaged structures, which is one aspect that has not been taken into account by the previous studies.
Compression after impact and fatigue behavior of CFRP stiffened panels
Authors: Ružek Roman , Tserpes Konstantinos , Karachalios Evaggelos 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– Impact and fatigue are critical loading conditions for composite aerostructures. Compression behavior after impact and fatigue is a weak point for composite fuselage panels. The purpose of this paper is to characterize experimentally the compression behavior of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) stiffened fuselage panels after impact and fatigue.

Design/methodology/approach
– In total, three panels were manufactured and tested. The first panel was tested quasi-statically to measure the reference compression behavior. The second panel was subjected to impact so as to create barely visible impact damage (BVID) at different locations, then to fatigue and finally to quasi-static compression. Finally, the third panel was subjected to impact so as to create visible impact damage (VID) at different locations and then to quasi-static compression. The panels were tested using ultrasound inspection just after manufacturing to check material quality and between different tests to detect impact and fatigue damage accumulation. During tests the mechanical behavior of the panel was monitored using an optical displacement measurement system.

Findings
– Experimental results show that the presence of impact damage significantly degrades the compression behavior of the panels. Moreover, the combined effect of BVID and fatigue was proven more severe than VID.

Originality/value
– The paper gives information about the compression after impact and fatigue behavior of CFRP fuselage stiffened panels, which represent the most realistic loading scenario of composite aerostructures, and describes an integrated experimental procedure for obtaining such information.
Accelerated carbide tool wear failure during machining of hot work hardened tool steel
Authors: Pantazopoulos George , Toulfatzis Anagnostis , Vazdirvanidis Athanasios , Rikos Andreas 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to outline and document the failure root cause of a carbide cutting tool during machining of a hardened tool steel under automatic machining conditions.

Design/methodology/approach
– Optical metallography and SEM/energy dispersive spectroscopy analysis, together with optical profilometry were employed for failure investigation. The use of an alternative cutting tool and modification of machining conditions are proposed as a failure preventive action.

Findings
– Severe abrasive wear and adhesion of machining chips are observed in the flank zone, causing blunting of the cutting edge. The revision of cutting conditions, together with the use CBN-based tool insert leads to an overall improvement of the stability of the process and tool lifetime.

Originality/value
– This paper places emphasis on a failure analysis case history following a structured approach in industrial machining problem solving, highlighting suggestions for process improvement.
Strain concentration during the compression of a carbon/epoxy composite after impact
Authors: Kadlec Martin , Kafka Václav 
Published: March 2015

Purpose
– Polymer composite panels are widely used in aeronautic and aerospace structures due to the high strength-to-weight ratios of these structures. The purpose of this paper is to determine the strain fields and failure mechanisms during the failure of the impacted composite laminates when subjected to compression.

Design/methodology/approach
– A series of compression-after-impact (CAI) tests was performed on composite plates 150×100×4 mm3 made of a carbon-fibre-reinforced epoxy resin matrix. A digital image correlation and fractographic analysis by means of optical and electron microscopy are used for this purpose.

Findings
– The full-field strain measurements indicate a concentrated band of compressive strain near the impact, where buckling occurs. The results indicate that the strain concentration factor can be considered to be a failure criterion. The shear strain visualisation around the impact reveals an area of heterogeneous deformation that is comparable to the detected delamination area acquired by an ultrasonic technique. Fibre and inter-fibre fractures are described for the particular impact site regions.

Originality/value
– These experiments could improve numerical models for the CAI analyses and help to build a new criterion for this severe failure mode.
Wing repair using an adhesively bonded boron composite patch – design and verification
Authors: Ružek Roman , Doubrava Radek , Raška Jan 
Published: March 2015

Purpose– Various types of damage or cracking in the structural components of an airframe can occur during the service lifetimes of aging aircraft. These types of damage are commonly repaired with a patch that can be joined to the original structure by different techniques, e.g., riveting and bonding. The purpose of this paper is to describe the repair of a fatigue crack in the metallic wing structure of a jet trainer aircraft using an adhesively bonded boron composite patch.Design/methodology/approach– The partial analytical design and numerical analysis of the repair is presented. Three different versions of the patch are quantitatively investigated. The efficiency of the designed adhesively bonded boron patch with the parent metallic structure is experimentally verified by panel tests, and two different patch geometries and two surface preparation techniques are investigated. The panels were designed, manufactured and tested as representative structures of the repaired structure.Findings– Adhesively bonded composite repair increases the lifetime by at least one order compared with the non-repaired structure. Both surface preparations provide equivalent results. The repair lifetime is significantly influenced by the patch geometry, and the longer patch significantly increases the lifetime of the panel. The lifetime of the structure can be increased by ˜40-fold if the patch geometry is a rectangle with 1:1.5 proportions of the sides (length in the crack direction/length perpendicular to the crack propagation). The patch length in the crack direction should be twice that of the initial crack length. Additional patch length extension in the direction that is perpendicular to the crack propagation does not appear to be effective for significantly decreasing the stress intensity factor and patch efficiency. The repair also retards the crack propagation if the crack grows out of the patch. No significant disbonding was detected.Originality/value– The work described in this paper provides information that is very useful for patch design and verification with relation to different patch geometries and technologies. The designed and verified repair has been successfully applied to an L-39 Czech aircraft structure.