Change & Fatigue

This involves effectively using the workforce to

plan and implement change. Its three components are: a co-created change strategy,

employee ownership of change planning, and communication that focuses on talking

instead of telling.

• Open-Minded Change

• Open-Book Change

• Open-Source Change

Employee change fatigue is driven by three key factors, except for:

• Exertion

• Activation

• Disruption

• Volume

To reduce the risk of change fatigue, we must reduce the load of

changes employees are 26

(a)  

Answer explanation

TRUE OR FALSE: Reducing the load of

changes employees are experiencing — isn’t a viable option.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the two factors that significantly impact fatigue risk?

• employees’ openness to change and HR’s change

  management approach

• employees’ openness to change and tenure/seniority,

• tenure/seniority and employees’ experience with change in their personal live

What are the three key features of open-source change?

• 1. 1. Shared decision making

  2. 2. Joint employee-leader planning

  3. 3. Emails from bosses

• 1. 1. Shared decision making

  2. 2. Top-down planning

  3. 3. Two-way communication

• 1. 1. Shared decision making

  2. 2. Joint employee-leader planning

  3. 3. Two-way communication

TRUE OR FALSE: Open-Source Change Management helps to

reduce the apathy that can arise when employees perceive change as only happening to them

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE OR FALSE: Better anticipation of change implications or unintended consequences induce burnout that can occur from

constantly experiencing new, unexpected challenges or complications in one’s work.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The negative employee responses to organizational change that

harm outcomes.

(a)  

TRUE OR FALSE: Increasing an employee's ability to take on load before they become fatigued is being driven by an open source approach to change management

• TRUE

• FALSE