Using the cited research from the textbook as a starting point, you are to find a current (as recent as possible) related journal article, preferably on the same topic. You should then read the current article and compare its results and findings to those summarized in the text. After determining whether the results and findings are the same or different from those cited in the textbook, you then need to explain what those similarities or differences mean, in plain English.
Chapter 2, Research Report 2.1 A test of the validity of Lewins three-step model
The Ford and Greer (2006) article is fairly recent, so you might not be able to find anything more recent than this article. This is not important. The point of the exercise is to find another article dealing with efforts to validate Lewins work. If that is not possible, find another article dealing with change that references Lewin and possibly Ford and Greer (together or either of them in their past research; not necessary to have both of them cited).
To that end it may be helpful to:
- Use the library databases to search on Lewin and change model to find related articles. Unfortunately, our library does not have full-text access to the Ford and Greer (2006) article cited in the text. An alternate strategy would be to search for articles citing Ford and Greer (2006) and see if we have access to those.
- Use Research report 2.1 to generate search terms. Freezing, unfreezing, and refreezing are possible choices. The theory and methods sections also have useful phrases that can be used for a literature search.
- You do not want to merely summarize the article. You want to indicate whether the article you found is consistent or inconsistent with the Ford and Greer (2006) findings, and Lewins theory. Then you want to discuss what these results, as a whole (both articles together), mean to managers in terms of being able to plan and conduct a change effort.
