MBA dissertation:

"Promoting Readiness for Change in a Higher Education Academic (Engineering) Department", Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, June 1998.

Contents (including Abstract etc.)
1. Introduction
2. Background to Study
3. Further Investigations
4. Research Methods
5. Results
6. Conclusions
7. References
8. Appendix

Tools

• Force Field Analysis
• The Survey
• Message: Discrepancy and Efficacy (Armenakis et al, 1993)
• Tavistock Consultancy Approach - focus groups
• MIT's 90/ NCET Projects & Ford et al (HE learning Environments): Adobe Acrobat file

Other Useful Material

• Stages in Managing Change in HE (adapted from HEQC, 1995): Adobe Acrobat file
• 'Awayday' slides on Change

Updated: 12/5/03