Force-field analysis

Force-field analysis is a problem-solving technique that involves identifying and analyzing the opposing forces that either hinder or facilitate a change that needs to be made. It is based on Lewin's Force Field Analysis Model and helps to identify the driving forces that propel initiatives forward and the restraining forces that create barriers. The goal of force-field analysis is to ensure that the driving force is stronger than the restraining forces to achieve successful change.From: Total Construction Management [2017], Obstacles to continued use of personal health records [2022], Transforming Organizations [2017]

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Published in John Oakland, Marton Marosszeky, Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain, 2006

John Oakland, Marton Marosszeky

Force field analysis is a technique used to identify the forces that either obstruct or help a change that needs to be made. It is similar to negative brainstorming and cause/effect analysis and helps to plan how to overcome the barriers to change or improvement. It may also provide a measure of the difficulty in achieving the change.

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Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2022

Michele Heath, Tracy H. Porter, Kenneth Dunegan

This paper draws upon Lewin’s Force Field Analysis Model (Lewin 1951) as an operational framework to analyze the process of change and assist in identifying forces which propel initiatives forward or create barriers. Lewin’s approach has been widely recognised as an effective framework to plan and manage change (Burnes 2004; Cummings and Worley 2001; Cummings, Bridgman, and Brown 2016; Muldoon 2019) and describes change as a process shaped by the balance of the driving and restraining forces. Driving forces are catalysts promoting a change; restraining forces are inhibitors. Identifying and understanding these forces is important in successful management of change initiatives.

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