Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout

By Eric Abrahamson. 2003

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Educational change takes ages: Life, career and generational factors in teachers’ emotional responses to educational change (2005, background): “Teachers who had seen the rate of change and reform accelerate, and had been victims of repetitive change syndrome (Abrahamson, 2004) where successive changes had passed through their school, felt there were ‘‘too many changes too fast; not enough time to deal with one particular change’’ which made”
Positioning Change Recipients’ Attitudes Toward Change in the Organizational Change Literature (2010, methodology): “…2001; Poole & Van de Ven, 2004); (c) the positive versus negative focus on change (i.e., negative problem-solving view vs. positive potential view; Abrahamson, 2004a, 2004b; Seo, Putnam, & Bartunek, 2004); and (d) the research method (i.e., variance or process methods; Mohr, 1982; Van de Ven &…”
Inclusive and exclusive educational change: emotional responses of teachers and implications for leadership (2004, background): “Psychologist Kurt Lewin said that there can be no change without pain (cited in Abrahamson, 2004, p. 19).”