Organizational therapy: Relating a psychotherapeutic model of planned personal change to planned organizational change

Abstract

The paper depicts an exercise in which a transtheoretical model of planned personal change serves as a metaphor for planned organizational change. Implications from the metaphorical exercise revealed thought provoking findings regarding the limited nature of OD change processes and their ordering in an organizational intervention. Weaknesses and suggestions for future research are provided.

Citation

Matheny, J.A. (1998), "Organizational therapy: Relating a psychotherapeutic model of planned personal change to planned organizational change", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 13 No. 5/6, pp. 394-405. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949810370389