Why do persistent myths about organizational change endure, despite decades of evidence against them? This webinar brings together senior scholars from the
Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP) and the
Journal of Change Management: Reframing Organizational Leadership and Practice (JCM) to challenge these enduring myths and discuss the evolving landscape of change research.
Despite extensive research showing that sustainable change often emerges through distributed leadership and employee involvement, many organizations still default to top-down, command-and-control approaches.
We will delve into the complexities of why such zombie ideas persist and how we can move beyond them. We'll explore organizational change as a dynamic process, shaped by the ongoing interplay between past expectations and current experiences, and how this temporal perspective influences leadership and change outcomes.
You will be equipped with:- Fresh theoretical frameworks that reconceptualize change as emergent and relational.
- An understanding of theoretical gaps in leadership and change, including discussions on identity, sense-making, practice-based perspectives, and the agency of followers.
- Insights into innovative methodological approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) that capture the complexity of organizational transformation.
- A look at future research directions that embrace this complexity while providing practical insights. Together, we will explore how leadership navigates paradoxes, inertia, conflicts, and emotions throughout the change process, moving beyond the notion of people as passive recipients to active co-creators of change.
When: June 19th, 10:30 - 11:30 AM EDT/ 4:30 -5.30 PM CEST [Central European Summer Time]
Speakers- Michael Barnett (Rutgers University, AMP)
- Selen Kars (University of the West of England, JCM)
- Olga Gjerald (University of Stavanger, JCM)
Moderators
- Danny van Montfort (Nyenrode Business University, ODC)
- Laura Fey (Leuphana University, ODC)
- David Bright (Wright State University, ODC)
- Daina Parchment (ODC)
