Preface: What do we mean by change and changeability?
Change means different things to different people. To the CEO, it may mean increasing profits, cutting costs or saving the business; to you or me, it may mean no more and no less than keeping or losing our job. That is why change is so profoundly unsettling. And the less control we have over the change, the more unsettling it tends to be.
Of course, not every organisational change is job-threatening. A dictionary definition of change is ‘the act or an instance of making or becoming different; an alteration or modification’. This suggests – entirely accurately – that change comes in many shapes and sizes.
Indeed, the word change is used to cover a multitude of situations: everything from the ...
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