English publications

Interview about the Change Monitor (2010)

Interview-about-the-Change-Monitor This easy to read interview gives a good impression of the intervention and some of its basic ideas. Danielle Savage from Turner Change Management in Canada did the interview and wrote the text.

Understanding failure to change: A pluralistic approach and five patterns (2009)

Understanding failure to change An article describing five characteristic patterns in terms of the obstacles to change as well as interventions for dealing with each of those. The findings are based on an analysis of Change Monitor data from over 350 organizations.

Shaping a learning process and realizing change: Reflection, interaction and cooperation through survey feedback (2007)

intervening

A chapter in the book Intervening and Changing: Looking for Meaning in Interactions (Jaap Boonstra and Léon de Caluwé, eds.) by the famous publisher John Wiley & Sons.

Methodologies for co-creating change: The power of interaction and collaboration (2004)

Methodologies for co-creating A chapter about the Change Monitor and other methodologies for working together in change processes. The co-creation of changes is contrasted with the view that managers want change but employees do not. The latter view turns those groups into each other’s opponents and fails to lead to effective change.

The change capacity of organizations: General assessment and five configurations (2001)

The change capacity of organizations An English adaptation of a 2001 article originally published in the Dutch journal M&O. The adaptation appeared in Applied Psychology - a prestigious international journal - as part of a special issue dealing with organizational change.