Inspecting the Evolution of Organization in People’s Liberation Army Air Force by Using the Concept of Enterprise Change

• Main Authors: Liu Sheng-Long, 劉盛隆
• Other Authors: 莊銘國
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23662195388671996179

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 國際企業管理學系碩士在職專班 === 95 === Enterprise globalization and competition have forced the enterprises to undertake organizational innovations in the past decade. Almost all enterprises in the USA, Europe and Asia experience the pressure. In the old time the listed public company leaders could mange the company without difficulty because of the company’s good reputation. However, due to continuously rising rivals and rapid development of internet, many old business models have become out-dated. Therefore, regardless of industry type, company leaders must re-consider the positioning of their companies and reform their organization in order to keep up with the rapid change in the market and maintain the leading spot in a fierce competitive environment. Thus, the concept of how enterprises reform and change has become a hot topic which all modern organizations have to face and go into deep research.. Enterprise is a major supporting force in a nation’s economy. The troop is a foundation of a nation’s military force. Both of them belong to overall national defensive strengths. Morever, in response to the emergence of the Internet and development in Information Technology, organizational change has become a must for all enterprises in twenty first century. Similarly, the change of international strategic environment, rapid improvement and development in weapon technology and innovation coming from information technology have led the military to put emphasis on quick reaction and precise strike in battlefield. The military force has learned to incorporate the art of enterprise organization into their organization.. The results can be proved on the Cold War between United States and Soviets, Kosovo war, Afghanistan and two Persian gulf wars. The USA military has already cooperated with private enterprises to accelerate organizational change in military by adopting professional advices and assistances. Peter F.Drucker pointed out “every organization has to transform into a medium to push the change for surviving and success. To successfully manage the change, the most efficient way is to initiate the change actively. With such principle in mind, this paper targets the evolution of Air Force organization which PLA emphasizes to develop as a research object. The time covered ranging from 1949 when PLA Air Force was formed to most recent military reformation plan(2006 to 2010) of the Mainland China. The paper first explored the organizational structures and investigated the theories of organization change. This research aimed to verify the assumption and find out ideal methods and procedures of organization change by organizing and classifying related academic research and core principles of international and inland scholars of management. This paper also verifies the nucleus concepts of exterior and interior organizational changes in PLA Air Force step by step, investigates their strength and weakness with a view to provide a reference source for other researchers and scholars, also to testify whether such principle of enterprisechange is applicable to a military organization. The following is a summary of my research findings. 一、Methods and procedures of organization change. (一) First of all, enterprise leaders must confirm the needs of change and be aware of the directions of change. (二) Establish the change plans with careful thoughts (三) Organize an appropriate team to execute the change. (四) Develop consensus and set the vision (五) Remove resistances to achieve a successful outcome. (六) Establish a reasonable praise mechanism, and maintain the winning spot. (七) Finally, incorporate the changes into the corporate culture. 二、Whether the principle of enterprise organizational change is applicable to the organizations in military. Because of continuous improvement of information and telecommunication technology, military organizations worldwide tend to evolve toward flat organizational structure as large corporate attributes to. This paper is to testify that methods and procedures adopted by PLA Air Force during their evolution can be compared to current enterprise organizational changes. Furthermore, principles of enterprise organizational change can be used to testify its effectiveness. Hence it is proved that principles of enterprise organizational change can be applied to military- -Type organizations.