MHR 505 Lecture 12: Chapter 15 - MHR 505

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 505
• Professor: Angus Yao

Document Summary

Force field analysis: kurt lewin"s model of system wide change that helps change agents diagnose the forces that drive and restrain proposed organizational change. One side of the force field model represents the driving forces that push organizations toward a new state of affairs. These might include new competitors or technologies, evolving workforce expectations, or a host of other environmental changes. Corporate leaders also produce driving forces even when external forces for change aren"t apparent. The other side of lewin"s model represents the restraining forces that maintain the status quo. These restraining forces are commonly called resistance to change because they appear to block the change process. Stability occurs when the driving and restraining forces are roughly in equilibrium that is, they are of approximately equal strength in opposite directions. Unfreezing: the first part of the organizational change process, in which the change agent produces disequilibrium between the driving and restraining forces.