Public Sector Executive: ‘Making change work'
Published 15 January 2010
Professor Julia Balogun of Lancaster's Centre for Strategic Management with Professor Veronica Hope Hailey from Cass Business School, have written a feature for Public Sector Executive on making change work in the public sector. They write that “public sector organisations are often expected by politicians to deliver significant transformational
change within a short time frame.” Yet the deadlines set are often unrealistic because, “frequently both politicians and senior managers fail to adequately assess the scope of the change, particularly in terms of the depth of transformation required. Whilst
reorganising or restructuring can be achieved on paper in a short period of time, the
transformation of staff behaviours and attitudes can take years.”
