{
  "title": "Change management: is a deadline enough to coordinate the transition?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/conduite-du-changement-une-echeance-suffit-elle-a-coordonner-la-transition-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-04-20",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Setting a date provides a shared horizon, but does not guarantee shared progress. Research on teams suggests distinguishing the change timetable from the way work actually reorganises.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Change Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Neuchâtel",
    "region": "Neuchâtel",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Connie Gersick (1988, Academy of Management Journal) observed project teams whose development did not follow a steady progression: periods of relative stability were interrupted by a marked reorientation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Remaining time as a signal for reorientation",
      "point": "Connie Gersick (1989, Academy of Management Journal) also found transitions associated with the temporal midpoint in an experimental study of groups carrying out a time-limited task."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that scheduling a midpoint meeting is enough to trigger a useful reorientation."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these findings cannot prescribe",
      "point": "This research concerns groups performing bounded tasks, not industrial transformations involving several qualification and production schedules."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Neuchâtel",
      "point": "In a Neuchâtel company working in microtechnology, watchmaking or precision microelectronics, a process modification may require coordinated adjustments in production, metrology and quality."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Gersick",
      "year": "1988",
      "source": "Academy of Management Journal"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Gersick",
      "year": "1989",
      "source": "Academy of Management Journal"
    }
  ],
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