'No More Money, Hannah!': Using HBO’s Girls to Teach Force Field Analysis

摘要

Research suggests that students today favor a collaborative learning style, shortcases, and group activities over semester-long case studies, and they respond wellto classroom activities characterized by the use of technology, entertainment, andexcitement. Accordingly, this article presents an exercise designed using these typesof activities to engage students while teaching them about Lewin’s force field analysis,resistance to change, and tactics for overcoming resistance to change. The exerciseis designed for late undergraduates or graduate students in a change managementcourse or in a change management module in an organizational behavior course.It provides students an easy, initial exercise to learn and apply force field analysisto a short video scene and a personal experience of change as well as to a morecomplicated follow-on case study.