Large-Scale Interventions for Organizational Change
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Overview of Large-Scale Interventions
The field of Organization Development sees large-scale organizational change as being across most or all of an organization. However, with the recent focus on transformational — fundamental and radical — change, practitioners often refer to large-scale interventions as means to accomplish transformational change. Types of large-scale interventions are also referred to as whole systems models.
In Leading Large Scale Change: A Practical Guide, the authors define large-scale change as “the process of mobilising a large collection of individuals, groups and organisations toward a vision of a fundamentally new future state, by means of:
• Key themes that can make a big difference
• A shift in power and a more distributed leadership
• Comprehensive and active engagement of stakeholders
• Mutually reinforcing changes in multiple systems and processes”
The following links gives a broad overview of various large-scale interventions.
- Guidelines and Resources for Whole Systems Change
- Using Real-Time Strategic Change
- When Should You Use the Change Management Readiness Checklist
- Guidelines and Resources for Whole Systems Change in Organizations
Some Specific Large-Scale Interventions
The following might be considered examples of large-scale intervention techniques, although there certainly has been argument about what technically qualifies as such an intervention.
- Marv Weisbord’s Future Search Conference
- Dick Axelrod’s Conference Model Redesign
- Carter McNamara’s Integrated Peer Learning Communities
- Guidelines and Resources for Whole Systems Change in Organization
- Cultural Change
- Guidelines, Methods and Resources for Organizational Change Agents
- Leading Large-Scale Change: A Practical Guide
- Large-Group Interventions
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Communication Is The Key To Successfully Implementing Any Large-scale Organizational Change
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