Articles

"A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management" - - A downloadable (pdf format) article discussing a framework proposed for designing organization change initiatives in a way that enables stakeholders to perform parallel (though connected) streams of inquiry and design in both cultural and structural systems simultaneously. Methodologies for performing these inquiry streams are described.

Background and Theory for Large Scale Organizational Change Methods - - A summary of many of the most widely used methods for managing organizational change with large groups.

Change Management: A Primer - - A broad overview of change management - from definitions to the change process.

"Cultural Aspects of Systemic Change" - - Article in downloadable format (pdf) describing an underlying scientific basis of a systems approach to integrating cultural and structural learning. Author elaborates a way of understanding culture as a multi-layered pattern of actions, values, and beliefs.

Inspiring Change - - Case studies on functional reorganization, culture change, merging and relocating companies, organisational diagnosis and change design.

Leadership Is An Art - - An ethical, means based, approach to organizational change. A view of organizational change from the prospective of an agent of change.

Organizational Change and Vested Interest - - White paper examining the interrelationship between costs of delay, vested interests and costs of organizational change. Available in postscript and pdf formats.

Organizational Change: Managing the Human Side - - White paper based on findings from APQC's 1997 organizational change consortium benchmarking study.

Organizational Theory - Determinants of Structure - - Article focusing on why organizations have the structure that they do, and a discussion on horizontal differentiation, vertical differentiation, mechanisms of coordination and control, formalization, and centralization of power.

Overview of Organizational Analysis and Change - - Reference information and articles on change management.

Role of Information Technology in Managing Organizational Change and Organizational Interdependence - - This article sets forth the application of open systems theory for generating propositions regarding the management of organizational change and organizational interdependence by application of IT.

Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly - - Ideas on Managing and Leading Change using Square Wheels illustrations.