The Academic Workplace: HRD's Potential for Creating and Maintaining a Positive Organizational Culture and Climate during Organizational Change

Design/Methodology/Approach

The approach that this manuscript uses is a conceptual one, one in which I identified literature that, as Callahan (2010) suggested, supports and informs the premise of the manuscript. A conceptual framework “makes connections between multiple bodies of literature and knowledge bases to make claims toward a particular argument” (p. 302). My investigation includes some of the literature of organizational change, and related topics such as changes in higher education; workplace civility, trust, and collegiality; leadership, and positive organizational studies. Drawing upon literature from higher education, human resource development, management, organizational studies and psychology, the ideas and suggestions set forth here represent a composite of the ways in which HRD practice can facilitate organizational change in higher educational institutions.