Lessons From the Military: A New Framework for Managing Change (C5)

Abstract

The environment of continuous, serial change has increased employee stress and leads to a condition known as enervative change. Enervative change reflects the stage where the energy mobilized by the change process is beginning to run down and increased job stress occurs. U.S. military research, experiences, and practices into "combat stress" as well as the "adaptive enterprise" have been used as the basis for a proposed new change management framework ("C 5 ") to be deployed as a means to moderate the stress related to organizational change leading to increased adaptability. Combat stress is analogous in many ways to enervative change, with similar cognitive and emotional stressors and employee/soldier reactions.

Burns, Senge, and the Study of Leadership

“…These include being flexible, having "continuous organizational renewal" or continuous adjustment in the face of environmental changes, having leaders that adjust their visions based on feedback from employees, and encouragement of professional development (Dalakoura, 2010;Dool, 2010;Fertig, 2011;Teckchandani & Schultz, 2014). Interestingly, only one of the articles noted two of the disciplines of a learning organization: team learning and personal mastery (Ciporen, 2010) and its treatment of those and the other disciplines are very brief.…”