Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication
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Washington, DC 20052

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Victoria Grady

Victoria Grady

Title — Assistant Professorial Lecturer of Organizational Sciences

Background

Victoria M. Grady completed her Doctor of Science at the George Washington University in May 2005.    Dr. Grady’s dissertation focused on the inherent loss of stability suffered by organizations introducing and implementing organizational change initiatives.  The research resulted in a validated model explaining the tendency of individuals, often subconsciously, to struggle, resist, and potentially disrupt the organizational change initiative.  

Dr. Grady has continued to build upon her research in the field of change management and extended her original model to include a validated index that quantitatively measures the tendency of individuals within the organization to embrace organizational change initiatives.  The index focuses on the employee, and how factors inherent in change affect their performance.  Subsequently, this shift in performance will have a negative impact on the overall health of the organization.

She is currently an Assistant Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Organizational Science within the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University. 

Publications

Grady, James D. and Grady, Victoria M. “Critical Components of Organizational Trust: Raising the Issue, Exploring the Origin, Pondering the Cure….” Proceedings of the OPUS International Conference- Organisational and Social Dynamics, London, England, November 2009.

Grady, Victoria M., Gleckel, Erikka A., and Grody, Erin R. “The Organizational Loss Of Effectiveness (LOE) Model And The LOE Index:  A Quantitative Measurement Tool For Identifying Individual Symptomatic Response To Technological Change,” Integration Journal, June 2009.

Grady, Victoria and Grady, James. “Winnicott’s Potential Space And Transitional Objects: Implications For The Organizational Change Process And Its Previously Defined Relationship To An Organizational Loss Of Effectiveness (LOE).” Journal of Organisational and Social Dynamics, Fall 2008.

Books: 

Grady, Victoria and Grady, James (2012) "The Pivot Point: Success in Organizational Change" New York: Morgan James Publishing.

Journal Publications: 

Grady, Victoria M and Grady, James D. (2012). “The Relationship of Bowlby’s Attachment Theory to the Persistent Failure of Organizational Change Initiatives.”Journal of Change Management. Under Review. 

Grady, Victoria M, Magda, Beverly, and Grady, James D. (2011). “Organizational Change, Mental Models And Stability: Are They Mutually Exclusive Or Inextricably Linked?” Journal of Organizational Development, Fal1 Volume 29 no3.

Grady, Victoria and Grady, James. (2011). “Critical Components of Organizational Trust: Raising the Issue, Exploring the Origin, Pondering the Cure….” Journal of Organisational and Social Dynamics, Volume 11 no 1. 

**Grady, Victoria M., Gleckel, Erikka A., and Grody, Erin R. (2009). “The Organizational Loss Of Effectiveness (LOE) Model And The LOE Index:  A Quantitative Measurement Tool For Identifying Individual Symptomatic Response To Technological Change,” Integration Journal, 97-106.

**This article received the Leadership Excellence Award.

Grady, Victoria and Grady, James. (2008). “Winnicott’s Potential Space And Transitional Objects: Implications For The Organizational Change Process And Its Previously Defined Relationship To An Organizational Loss Of Effectiveness (LOE).”Journal of Organisational and Social Dynamics, vol 8 no 2, 278-297. 

Grady, Victoria M. and Grady, James D. (2007) “KM Technologies and the Organizational LOE: The Unintended Consequence of Constant Organizational Change,”Kevin O’Sullivan (Eds), Strategic Knowledge Management in Multinational Organizations, (pp 104-118). Pennsylvania: IGI Global.   

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Magda, Beverly and Grady, Victoria. (2011, August). “A Qualitative Process AND a Quantitative Tool: How do YOU Improve Technology Change Success?” Professional Development Workshop at The Academy of Management Conference 2011, San Antonio, Texas.  

Grady, Victoria M. and Grady, James D. (2010, November). “The Correlation Between Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and the Failure of Organizational Change Initiatives: Further Exploration of the Organizational LOE and Its Roots in Psychoanalytic Literature.” Proceedings of the OPUS International Conference- Organisational and Social Dynamics, London, England. 

Grady, Victoria and Magda, Beverly. (2010, May). “Organizational Change, Mental Models And Stability: Are They Mutually Exclusive Or Inextricably Linked?”Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, Portland, Maine.

Grady, James D. and Grady, Victoria M. (2009, November).“Critical Components of Organizational Trust: Raising the Issue, Exploring the Origin, Pondering the Cure….”Proceedings of the OPUS International Conference- Organisational and Social Dynamics, London, England. 

Grady, Victoria M. (2008, June).“The LOE Index: A Quantitative Change Measure for the Individuals that are Collectively the Organization.” Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Organizations 25th Annual Meeting, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania.

Grady, V., Davis, E. B., Olsen, N., Duffy, S., & Ciampaglio, T. (2008, May). The Power of Effect. Panel presentation: Papers on organizational effectiveness. Proceedings of the Eastern Academy of Management, Washington, DC. 

Grady, Victoria M. and Grady, James D. (2007, June) “Potential Space and Transitional Objects: Implements for The Understanding and Management Of Organizational Loss Of Effectiveness (LOE),” Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Organizations 24th Annual Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.