Continuing professional development and workplace learning – 15: Achieving successful organisational change – do's and don'ts of change management

Abstract

Purpose

Subsequent instalments in the series examined achieving readiness for change, recognising and responding to change resistance, and communicating in times of change. This, the last in the series, focuses on nine fundamental, and interrelated, elements that are key to achieving successful and sustained change.

Design/methodology/approach

Focuses on nine fundamental, and interrelated, elements that are key to achieving successful and sustained change.

Findings

Finds that change is now a constant organisational imperative.

Originality/value

This article and those preceding have attempted to provide, for those tasked with guiding and steering change, pointers to how the challenge of successfully achieving change might best be met.

Citation

Smith, I. (2006), "Continuing professional development and workplace learning – 15: Achieving successful organisational change – do's and don'ts of change management", Library Management, Vol. 27 No. 4/5, pp. 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435120610668232