Articles on Change Management

Change Management – Meaning and Important Concepts

The business landscape of the 21st century is characterized by rapid change brought about due to technological, economic, political and...

The Need for Change Management

In the contemporary business environment, organizations fight the battle of competition by building their adaptive capabilities and preparedness for coping...

Kinds of Change and the Barriers to Change

There are different kinds of change that an organization might undertake or be forced to undertake because of internal and...

Pre-Requisites for Successful Change Management

Change Management in an organization aims at realizing the strategic goals and improving an organization’s preparedness for meeting both internal...

Overcoming Barriers to Change

Research has shown that the best way to get the senior managers at all levels interested in the change initiatives...

The Role of Senior Managers as Barriers to Change

It is often the case that when change programs are initiated in firms, there is a level of resistance from...

Reasons for Resistance to Change

Change is an important and an indispensable part of the organizational life. It is all pervasive and hence comes the...

Individual and Organizational Sources of Resistance to Change

Individual sources of resistance towards a change exist in the basic human tenets or characteristics and are influenced by the...

Techniques for Overcoming Resistance to Change and Selection of Appropriate Technique

According to Kotter and Schlesinger (1979) proposed six crucial techniques for overcoming the resistance to change. These are given below:...

Global Financial Crisis and Organizational Change

Resistance to change is inevitable as there are many parties who stand to lose from change and apart from the...

Why Some Organizations are Better at Driving Change ?

We live in a world where increasing complexity is the order of the day and the business landscape is characterized...

Organizational Change and Managing Resistance to Change

Why is Change Resisted ? Any change anywhere, be it among nations, organizations, societies, or even families is hard to...

Role of Catalysts in Organizational Change

The other articles in this series on Change Management have listed the business imperatives for change as well as the...

Creating Sustainable Change – How to create and sustain change?

Who doesn’t like change and who doesn’t want to change? These are certainly truisms in the 21st century landscape where...

Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Change

It is often the case that companies are faced with a dilemma about whether the change initiatives must be driven...

Fundamental Issues with the Top Down Approach in Change Management

Several change management experts have argued that Bottom Up Strategy for Change Management yields effective results comparatively over Top Down...

Role of HR in Change Management

This module has covered the various aspects of change management and the roles played by senior management as well as...

Role of Innovation in Change Management

We have seen how various factors contribute to the propagation of change within an organization. For instance, change can be...

Are External Consultants Needed for Change Management Programs to Succeed ?

Many organizations take the help of external consultants in identifying, recommending and implementing change. This article looks at whether there...

Why Change Management Programs Often Fail? Some Ways to Actualize Change

We have heard the story several times. A large conglomerate wants to implement a change management program, which it then...

Middle Level Management – Sandwich Layer and its Importance to Organizations

In previous articles, at many places, we have discussed how the middle management is in the unique position of actualizing...

Bureaucracy and Organizational Change

The very word bureaucracy conjures images of sloth, inefficiency and status quoist mindset. To associate bureaucracy with change would thus...

Change Management in Family Owned Businesses versus Professionally Run Companies

Is it easier to drive through change in family owned businesses or professionally run companies? This is a question that...

Change is the only Constant in the 21st Century

The business landscape of the 21st century is characterized by ever changing trends and events that happen with so much...

Different Types of Change

Happened Change This kind of change is unpredictable in nature and is usually takes place due to the impact of...

What is Strategic Change? – Meaning and its Theories

What is Strategic Change? In response to the fast changing and fluid marketplace and industry landscapes, many management thinkers came...

Change Management: Why the First 100 Days Targets are a Myth ?

How often we hear of business leaders and CEO’s who have just taken over proclaim that they would undertake radical...

Between Two Paradigms: The Changing Role of Management

From the Smokestack Era to the Digital Era The role of management has changed over the decades as the paradigm...

Exponential Change and What it means for Businesses and Workers

Who Remembers these Companies ? Businesses, workers, and governments worldwide are feeling the effects of dizzying change wherein trends that...

Transactional vs Transformational Leadership in Change Management

Leaders play a crucial role in steering organizational change and inspire or stimulate people for achieving excellence at work by...

Organizational Learning and Change Management

Over a past few decades the concept of “Organizational Learning” has acquired increasing importance, due to rapid changes in the...

Organizational Vision, Mission, Strategy and Change Management

Organizational vision mission, provide a sense of purpose or establish the the reason of existence of an organization. According to...

Models/Approaches to Implement Change Management Programme

Several models of Change Management have been suggested by several management consultants, social scientists and clinical psychologists till date for...

Kurt Lewin’s Change Management Model: The Planned Approach to Organizational Change

Kurt Lewin’s Three Stages model or the Planned Approach to Organizational is one of the cornerstone models which is relevant...

Kotter’s 8 step Model of Change

John Kotter (1996), a Harvard Business School Professor and a renowned change expert, in his book “Leading Change”, introduced 8...

Contingency Model of Change Management: Dunphy and Stace’s Model of Change

The contingency model is an extended version of Lewin’s three step in which Dunphy and Stace (1988, 1992 and 1993),...

Mintzberg and Quinn’s Model of Change

Mintzberg and Quin (1991) proposed 4 broad situational factors which can influence the extent to which an organization can change....

Scott and Jaffe Change Model

This model of change is one of the unique models of change as propounded by Cynthia Scott Dennis Jaffe in...

Anderson & Anderson’s Change Model

Anderson Anderson’s model of change provides a comprehensive coverage of the entire process of change and equally explains the whole...

McKinsey 7S Change Model

McKinsey 7S model was developed by Robert Waterman and Tom Peters during early 1980s by the two consultants McKinsey Consulting...

Transformational Change and Change Management

In the present competitive scenario, modern organizations are faced with several challenges from the external environment which are political, social...

Models of Transformational Change

An extensive review of the literature details would reveal that both practitioners and academics have explained transformational models with varied...

Organizational Change and Transition Management

The process of Transition Management involves the implementation of change through systematic planning, organizing and implementation of change to reach...

Determining Forces of Organizational Change

Organization as a system, depend on many interdependent factors which influence it’s day to day functioning, strategic decisions and future...

Forces of Organizational Change: Planned vs. Unplanned Change and Internal & External Change

In the fast-changing business environment, the contemporary organization’s must learn to be more adaptable and flexible for successfully facing the...

Systems Model of Change Management and Continuous Change Process Model

Systems Model of Change The Systems Model of Change or Organization-Wide Change lays more emphasis on the fact that a...

Importance of Communication in Change Management

For implementing a change program successfully, communication is the key and one of the most complex parameters as it involves...

Action Research for Successful Organizational Change

Action Research is a useful method for facilitating organizational change by collaborating and involving the client in the entire process...

Psychological Contract and Change Management

The term Psychological Contract gained popularity during the 1960s when its description and definitions were mentioned in the studies of...

Emotional Competence Framework and Change Management

The term Emotional Competence is treated as a buzzword in the present scenario and several studies, as well as investigations,...

Characteristics and Capabilities of Successful Change Agents

Change agents act as the champions or change catalysts. The change agents may play the role of a consultant who...

Key Factors in Effective Change Management

Successful organizations evolve at lightning speed for remaining competitive and gaining a winning edge across the industry. This can be...

Battle Between Change Agents and Status Quo Interests in Every Organization

The Battle between Change Agents and Status Quo Adherents Every organization has its change agents who seek to take risks,...

Managing the Transition from Hierarchical to Network Organizational Structures

Introduction The emergence of the network-based organizational structures and a movement away from the hierarchical structures that were the hallmark...

Why it is Becoming Difficult to Change the Status Quo in Economies and Organizations?

The Necessity of Change and Change Agents World Over World over, the leaders of nations and firms are grappling with...

Future Shock, Present Shock, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

What is Future Shock and what are Its Characteristics? In the 1970s, noted Futurist, Alvin Toffler, coined the term Future...

The Changing Nature of Power in the Age of Networks

The Power of Individuals against Establishment Figures The Digital Age has upended many things and this includes the way in...

How Organizations Must Learn to Deal with Radical, Disruptive, and Disorienting Change

Dealing with Radical Change We live in times when change is the only constant. Indeed, organizations now compete in an...

Driving Organizational Change by Embracing Agile and Facing the VUCA World

What is Agile and what is meant by the VUCA World? It is hard not to miss the extensive press...

How Relevant is the Corporate Planning Function in the Digital Age of Agile Organizations

Corporate Planning in Earlier Decades Manufacturing Firms In manufacturing firms in the earlier decades, one of the most sought after...

Paradigm Shift is Needed for Organizations to Succeed in the Digital Age

What’s New and What’s the Same in the Digital Age The Digital Age is well and truly upon us. Everywhere...

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