DISSERTATION WHITE PAPER: Leadership Behaviors and Employee Engagement during Complex Change Events: A Qualitative Study of U.S. Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Centers
AUTHOR : Karalee G. Picard, Ed.D. TOPIC : Preparing Leaders and Employees for Successful High-Stake, Complex Organizational Change PURPOSE : To outline which leadership behaviors should be employed to engage civilian employees during a major, complex organizational change event FOR : All leaders of complex, bureaucratic organizations, especially senior and mid-level leaders in JIOCs, DoD, and the Intelligence Community. Abstract : This qualitative study was designed to examine how Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) civilian employees experience leadership behaviors and characteristics during re-organizational changes in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Combatant Command (CCMD) intelligence organizations, known as Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs, pronounced j-EYE-ock). More specifically, this study’s goal was to create best practices for leaders to prepare for organizational change. Fourteen DIA civilians who ...