Change Readiness Revisited: The Nexus of Mind and Structure
Too often, “change readiness” gets treated as a quick pre-flight checklist: assess attitudes, confirm sponsorship, deliver communications, then launch. This article argues that readiness is better understood at the intersection of organizational psychology and management theory, where the “soft” realities of belief, emotion, and motivation meet the “hard” realities of structure, strategy, systems, and resources. […]
Readiness Surveys and Other Methods
In my previous article, it was established that the definition of change readiness proffered by Armenakis et al. is both founded in empirical research and prevails most prominently in the readiness literature. In fact, later research by Armenakis et al. (2006, 2007) confirmed that an individual’s overall evaluative judgement that he or she is ready […]