Abstract
Change is desirable by organizations seeking to increase their competitive advantage and the United States Space Force is not immune to those same demands. As the United States’ newest military service, the Space Force initiated sweeping changes in an attempt to modernize how space operations are performed. Each of these changes imposed themselves upon stakeholders across the Space Force enterprise and my project sought understanding about their effects. With an increasing rate during the preceding decades, literary publications show linkages between the success or failure of an organization’s desired change outcomes and the level of commitment demonstrated by its employees. This project connects what is known about organizational change and employee behavior in non-military environments with the Space Force’s change efforts since its architecture deliberately emulates corporate design. The literature review explores change from institutional, organizational, and employee perspectives to better understand the relationship between change demands and employees’ commitment. The research methodology balances qualitative and theoretical design, using my personal experiences as a Space Force member to formulate a novel research project.
Date Created
9 July 2024
Project Type
Capstone
College or School
College of Professional Studies Granite Division
Program or Major
Leadership
Date
Summer 7-9-2024
Recommended Citation
Dempsey, Daniel M., "Institutional Change and Employee Commitment in the United States Space Force" (2024). M.S. in Leadership. 136.
https://scholars.unh.edu/ms_leadership/136
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Leadership Studies Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Organization Development Commons