creators_name: Armstrong, J. Scott
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title: Strategies for Implementing Change: An Experiential Approach
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subjects: behanal
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abstract: An attitude survey and a role-playing case were used to identify the typical approaches people use to implement important changes in organizations. This typical strategy, suggested or used by over 90% of the subjects, was not successful in producing change in any of the fourteen role-playing trials. However, with ten minutes of instruction in the ”Delta Technique,” 86% of the subjects were successful in introducing change in another fourteen role-playing trials. The ”Delta Technique” consists of simple rules drawn from half a century of research.
date: 1982
date_type: published
publication: Group & Organization Studies
volume: 7
number: 4
pagerange: 457-475
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Armstrong, J. Scott  (1982) Strategies for Implementing Change: An Experiential Approach.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
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