Change Management Theory

Change management is a discipline studied and implemented in various organizations. The existence of this discipline spans for over half a century currently. Thus, it is a discipline of old time, with quite a number of years in existence. However, it is surprising to note that despite the huge investments that various organizations and companies employ to facilitate organizational change studies still indicate that between 60% - 70% fail (Anderson & Ackerman, 2010 p. 37). This is a remarkably high rate of failure for organizational management change projects. The statistics holds from years of 1970's to the moment. There are numerous tools, trainings and thousands of books that organizations turn to employ to implement the change they perceive fits their organization. When the failure occurs, the question is always, should the company go back to the drawing board. Most of these organizations employ various success factors developed...
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