CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Change Management

Change Management

Introduction

As change management theories have evolved, greater emphasis has been placed on an analysis and characterisation of change forces themselves (Jick & Peiperl, 2003). Understanding the nature of change forces faced influences the approach taken to manage change from a leadership perspective. Theorists and practitioners have used three approaches to create a change force map: a technical versus adaptive approach, a systems approach, and an incremental versus discontinuous changes approach.

Analysis

People often say that the only thing in life that people can be certain of is change. The last half of the twentieth century brought great changes to organisations ...