Change Management 2

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	Change Management

The purpose of this article is to talk through certain writings in this area and to trigger your own ideas with regard to change management.

Specifically we will consider:

force field analysis
reasons for resistance to change
crisis and change, learning and unlearning
change strategies generally
the essential features of a change management strategy;
elements of an effective change process.

Force Field Analysis

Despite initial appearances, this really does have nothing to do with Star Wars. Rather we are considering the works of Kurt Lewin with regard to tools that can be used in the change management process - much more down to earth!

In this connection it is useful to distinguish between o the forces that make for change and
the forces that resist change.

This distinction is often drawn by authors, indeed those whose thinking is contained within fundamentally different value systems. For example, from a psychological perspective Kurt Lewin's Field Force Theory distinguished driving forces from restraining forces, whilst from a socio-political perspective, Marx, Engels and Lenin viewed all change as the result of continual conflict between different social classes.