Change in recession

Change is tough at the best of times, but even harder under pressure. Do firms applying proven tactics, with strong and strategic HR, markedly improve their chances of success? Methodology A survey of more than 3,000 executives involved in a transformation in the past five years, asking about the objectives and trigger for the change programme; its success; and how it was designed, led and executed.
 

Language does not simply reflect what is going on in organisational life: it also influences what people think and what they do

Linda Holbeche, director of the Holbeche Partnership and visiting professor of HRM/OD at Cass Business School