Associate Professor Regine Wagner's workshop slides. Workshop to support the FLI, CSU (Aus) & Massey (NZ) research project “Fostering institutional change through distributive leadership approaches: Engaging academics and teaching support staff in blended and flexible learning”is being conducted as a partnership between CSU and Massey Universities. The research methodology includes a force field analysis as a mechanism for analysing and describing the driving and constraining forces that shape the project at international, national, and local institutional levels.

1. FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS A TOOL TO DOCUMENT, DESCRIBE AND ANALYSE ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER

2. ASSOC PROFESSOR REGINE WAGER VISITING FELLOW, FLEXIBLE LEARNING INSTITUTE, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER

5. FIELD THEORY 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER ‘ If you truly want to understand something, try to change it’ Kurt Lewin 1890-1947 Field theory in social science : selected theoretical papers, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1975, c1951 Describing and analysing dynamic social processes

11. QUASI-STATIONARY EQUILIBRIUM 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER An organisational state where everything is in balance yet change processes have not been suspended

12. 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER Shared Language

14. 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER How to change the status quo ? Status quo Driving Forces Restraining Forces

16. 04/18/11 REGINE WAGNER The context of ‘the partnership’ - FFA of common forces International Forces ……………… .. …………… .. National Forces ……… .. …………… Institutional Forces ……… .. ……………