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Paradox, Defense and Attachment: Accessing and Working with Emotions and Relations Underlying Organizational Change

Russ Vince and Michael BroussineView all authors and affiliations
Volume 17, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069601700101

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Our intention in this article is to add to the different ways of looking at and working with change in organizations. We suggest a set of working propositions that move away from problem-solving or planning-based approaches to change, towards a method which focuses primarily on organizational members' emotions and relations, and on forces of uncertainty and defensiveness. We attempt both to highlight the dynamic nature of change, and to point towards some key issues, often avoided, for engaging with aspects of change. We then describe a participative research process we have employed to access and act on organizational members' emotional responses to change. In this instance, drawings were used with managers in six public service organizations as the catalyst to enable managers to bring out often paradoxical emotions, and to work with these as part of the process of the management of change. While our research is set in the context of enormous changes in U.K. public services, we feel that our methodology is applicable to any organizational setting which is characterized by uncertainty and defensiveness.

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Volume 17, Issue 1
Pages: 1 - 21
Article first published: January 1996
Issue published: January 1996

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  1. Descriptors: organizational behaviour
  2. organizational change
  3. emotion
  4. relatedness
  5. visual data

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