| "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. |
| "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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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