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The Rediscovery of the Human Being and the Future of Change Management

In: Change Management and the Human Factor

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  • Frank E. P. Dievernich

    (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

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Change management means change, but it cannot theoretically or practically be envisioned without a sense for the “opposite” state that it is built on. If change is understood as the difference between two distinct states, then change would refer to one (defined and observed) state that is distinct from another (undefined and unobserved) state. There are good reasons to consider that state a state of stability. This perception has been lost in the recent past—and with it the ability to manage change successfully and, above all, sustainably. Without stability, change becomes an empty construct, bereft of substance and revolving eternally around itself. This essay recovers the individual as a structural component of organizations that is able to establish the stability that change needs in order to function, i.e. to create a substantial difference in hyperdynamic organizational life.

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  • Frank E. P. Dievernich, 2015. "The Rediscovery of the Human Being and the Future of Change Management," Springer Books, in: Frank E. P. Dievernich & Kim Oliver Tokarski & Jie Gong (ed.), Change Management and the Human Factor, edition 127, pages 9-18, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-07434-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07434-4_2
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