The Oxford Review Blog: Evidence-based practice research briefings

Organisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 3

In this post I look at what the researchers found about resistance, chains of frames and what people tend to focus on and what to do about it. In this post I looked at frames and framing contests and what they are, In the second post I looked at what the researchers found about the […]

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Organisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 2

Building support across stakeholders

This is the second post in a series of 3 looking at some new research from the US which shows how it is possible to achieve goals at an organisational level by a process called ‘frame decoupling’. In the last post I looked at frames and framing contests and what they are, In this post […]

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Organisational change: building support across different stakeholders Part 1

managing stakeholders

Today I will start a three part posting about some important research published this month by researchers from Louisiana State University, and Colorado State University in the US, which shows how it is possible to achieve goals at an organisational level by a process called ‘frame decoupling’. In this post I will look at frames […]

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Why most business strategies fail – eventually

Your business strategy is very likely to fail. Why and what to do to stop it happening to your business… A paper just published by colleagues at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford argues that business planning by organisations needs to involve ‘scenario research’. Scenario research involves looking at how the business […]

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How modern management, leadership and organisational development consultants are staying on top of their game in a noisy world…

See what professional management, leadership and organisational development consultants do to keep impressively up-to-date with the latest thinking and research on management, leadership and organisational development with no effort…   How management, leadership and organisational development consultants keep up-to-date from David Wilkinson on Vimeo.  

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How the senior management of your company affects the brand. New research.

It has been pretty much accepted that senior management can have a major impact on the delivery to the customer of a brand’s values and vision. However, very little work has been done to look at exactly what the impact is and how it works. In a study just published, a team of researchers surveyed […]

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How to keep right up-to-date as a Executive or Organisational Development Coach

Keeping up-to-date with the latest thinking about organisational, management and leadership development thinking is the basis of being impressive as a coach. This video shows you how professional executive and organisational development coaches at the top of their game stay right up to date.   How to stay up-to-date as an Executive and Organisational Development […]

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How to deal with psychological contract breaches and dissent

This is the last of 4 articles looking at what happens when people in organisations feel aggrieved and how the research shows, managers should deal with it. Part 1 Psychological Contract Breaches & 3 Types of Employee Dissent Part 2 The 3 Forms of Organisational Dissent Part 3 The 5 Different Dissent Strategies Part 4 […]

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