Victoria Grady, Ph.D.

Bio—Victoria Marie Grady

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. 

Grady, Victoria M. and Magda, Beverly. “A Model for Managing Technological Change in an Organization,” Proceedings of the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, August 2008.

Grady, Victoria M. “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, June 2008.

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

Grady, Victoria M. and Magda, Beverly. “Change: What is it Good for?,” Proceedings of the Team Approach User Forum: Executive Track, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2008.

Grady, Victoria M. and Magda, Beverly. “A Model for Managing the Human Side of Technology Change,” Monthly Web-Teleconference for Executive Council of Chief Information Officers, December, 2007.

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

Grady, Victoria M. and Grady, James D. “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, June 2007

Grady, Victoria M. and Magda, Beverly. “The Human Side of Technology Change,” Proceedings of the American Society of Association Executives: Technology Conference, Washington DC, February 2007.           

Grady, Victoria, “Studying the Effect of Loss of Stability on Organizational Behavior: A Perspective on Technological Change,” dissertation manuscript, The George Washington University, 2005.

Grady (Goetz), V. and Hamner, M. “The Deterioration from an Organizational Loss Of Stability Into An Organizational LOE,” Proceedings of the 2004 American Society Engineering Management National Conference, Alexandria, VA, 2004.

Grady (Goetz), V. and Hamner, M. “The Effect of Technological Change on Organizational Effectiveness,” American Society of Engineering Managers Practice Periodical. Volume 1, Number 2. Summer 2004. 

Grady-Goetz, V. and Hamner, M., “Identifying Behavioral Symptoms in the Workplace That Can Evolve Into An Organizational Loss of Effectiveness,” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society Engineering Management National Conference, St. Louis, MO, 2003.

Grady, Victoria, “Development of a Tool to Measure Organizational Anaclitic Depression as a Result of the Turbulent Technology Revolution,” unpublished dissertation proposal manuscript, The George Washington University, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS:

Constructing Organisational Development and Change Intervention Models for Transforming Hierarchies- Mannie Sher, Director- Tavistock Institute -Wednesday, June 18, 2008- ISPSO 2008 Annual Meeting- Philadelphia, PA.  This Professional Development Workshop explores designing and implementing Tavistock Institute-based Organisational Development and Change strategies for large complex organisational systems. 

From Baby To Boardroom: The Tavistock-Bick Method Of Infant Observation And Its Application To Organisations And In Consultancy- Ross Lazar, Consultant and Clinical Therapist- Monday, June 25-Tuesday, June 26- ISPSO 2007 Annual Meeting- Stockholm, Sweden.  The method of infant observation, first developed and pioneered by Esther Bick and her colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic, has had an enduring influence, not only in the training of psychoanalytically oriented clinicians and other professions, especially child psychotherapists, but also in deepening the capacity for observation and the observational stance in ‘seeing’ and recording human interaction and its resonance in the observer, no matter what her or his field of endeavour.

Victoria M. Grady
Assistant Professorial Lecturer
Organizational Science Department
Columbian School of Arts and Sciences
George Washington University
600 21st Street NW
Suite 102
Washington D.C. 20012
Preferred Phone: 703-577-2741
Preferred Email: grady_victoria@yahoo.com