A Literature Review on Change Management

Abstract

Change today is a constant for businesses across the world. Fast-paced technological and market developments pose a challenge to businesses and organisations opposing change, on the other hand, those who embrace change and successfully implement changes benefit from this. However, a majority of initiatives to bring about a change in the way business happens in an organisation fail. These shortcomings are explained by a range of factors such as members' aversion to reform, inadequate preparation and poor handling of change and a poor leadership. Change and change management have also received considerable attention from the academic world. Scores of models of change management have been developed covering different aspects of change management. So are there tens of thousands of scholarly articles and books on change management. The scope of this paper is to synthesize and review major and some recent studies on change management.