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Models, techniques, and approaches for change management
Published in Robert Jones, Fiona Jenkins, Penny Humphris, Jim Easton, Key Tools and Techniques in management and leadership of the Allied Health Professions, 2021
Force field analysis. The diagnostic technique of ‘force field analysis’ is used as a method of looking at variables involved in determining whether change will occur. It is based on the idea of ‘forces’ relating to perceptions about particular factors and their influences. Driving forces are those that ‘push’ in a particular direction, initiating change or keeping it going while restraining forces are acting to decrease the driving force or restraining it. It is a dynamic system approach to change and sees all situations as temporary and potentially changeable. At any given moment, a field of forces is acting on an event or problem. The approach involves identifying the forces and seeking to change their direction or strength.
Process mapping
Published in Paul Bowie, Carl de Wet, Aneez Esmail, Philip Cachia, Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide, 2020
Force field analysis is a method to analyse the causes of a problem. It is a particularly effective way to ensure clinical engagement if the person analysing the causes was involved in identifying the causes. Force field analysis allows the drivers and restraints to change to be compared and ‘balanced’. 15
Understand the problem
Published in Amar Rughani, Joanna Bircher, The Leadership Hike, 2020
Once you’ve done your force field analysis, you can use it to either decide whether or not to move forward with the change or to think about which supportive forces you can strengthen and which opposing or resisting forces you can weaken in order to make the change more successful.
An evaluation of the driving and restraining factors affecting the implementation of hospital accreditation standards: A force field analysis
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Mohammed Hussein, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot
To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the enablers and challenges affecting the implementation of hospital accreditation standards from the perspective of hospital and quality directors in Saudi Arabia. It is also the first study in the accreditation realm to analyze these forces using Lewin’s force-field analysis framework. The identified factors, whether originating from within or outside the hospital setting, were categorized as either driving forces that positively facilitated compliance with accreditation standards or as restraining forces that hindered it.