What is it about?
The article uses evidence from three organisational change projects in Arts Council England to discuss how project management methods can sometimes complement but sometimes also conflict with organisational change management.
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Why is it important?
Managers increasingly use project management methods when they embark upon large-scale, discontinuous organisational change initiatives. While these methods offer many benefits they sometimes conflict with the requirements for effective change management. Thus it is important to manage project management and change management as a complex duality when implementing organisational change.
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Too often models of organisational change imply that project management and change management form a seamless whole. This article shows that this is not so, and that managing project management and change management as a complex duality - with many inherent conflicts as well as complementarities - is the realistic approach.
Dr David Shaw
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Managing dualities in organizational change projects, Journal of Change Management, December 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2015.1118142.
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