Strategic Leadership and Organizational Change: Challenges in Army Transformation

摘要

The Chief of Staff of the Army has communicated his intent to transform the Army into a more viable, deployable force. This intent, and the guidance for the transformation, are contained in the Army's Transformation Campaign Plan. In this plan, the transformation is described as a complete systems and organization change, not only in the way the Army fights but in the way it operates on a daily basis. Organizational change and transformation is a much studied topic. The complexities of not only communicating such a change but in implementing it are vast, yet several bodies of works assist strategic leaders in attempting such transformation. Based on these studies, the likelihood of success of the current transformation plan as written and thus far in execution is slim and will fall well short of the Chief of Staff's stated endstate. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Army's transformation efforts thus far in light of the theories and works regarding organizational change and transformation and to provided several recommendations that could enhance the efforts of the transformation plan.