Making organizational change stick: leadership reality checks
Abstract
Purpose
With organizations trying to compete on a global scale, they are constantly putting energy and resources into performance improvement and change initiatives. The purpose of this research is to make it clear that sustaining performance improvement and making change stick is a truly challenging component for most enterprises.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper identifies three key factors that have strong implications on development and learning in organizations dealing with this subject. This paper discusses how to make sure that improvement is real, avoiding declaring success prematurely and leading so as to make change stick.
Findings
The paper discusses the factors and from these are found some specific actions for business leaders serious about real change and improvement.
Originality/value
The paper provides useful information for business leaders who are serious about real change and improvement.
Keywords
Citation
Longenecker, C.O. and Rieman, M.L. (2007), "Making organizational change stick: leadership reality checks", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 21 No. 5, pp. 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280710779418
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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