Management Consultants' Colourful Ways of Looking at Change: An Explorative Study under Dutch Management Consultants
Year: 2007
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Questionnaire data collected from 71 management consultants is used to gain insight into their preferences and assumptions regarding organizational change. The main question is: ‘how do management consultants think about change and which preference do they have regarding the use of intervention methods?’. The research is based on a framework in which five perspectives on change are conceptualized and in which each perspective is divided in thinking and doing and as a whole is associated with a colour. These perspectives are: yellow-print thinking which is based on processes of power, coalition formation and coercion; blue-print thinking is synonym with planned and programmed change; red-print thinking concerns Human Resource Management; green-print thinking lines up with organizational learning; and white-print thinking stands for emergent processes of self steering, chaos and sense making. The results suggest that the method used produces useful insight in consultants' attitudes and preferences.
Source: Journal of Change Management
Authors: Antonie Van Nistelrooij, Léon De Caluwé, Nanja Schouten
Institutions: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Victoria University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2024565731