“A change readiness assessment is a systematic evaluation of an organization’s preparedness for implementing significant changes. It examines critical areas of the organization like culture, awareness, employee readiness and leadership commitment.”
See also Bakertilly on “Organizational Readiness”:
“At some point, most organizations will go through significant changes. Realizing this inevitability, you may wonder if your organization is ready for a transformation. That can be difficult to gauge as there is no one-size-fits-all approach to transformation and many contributing factors to an organization’s preparedness for change, or organizational readiness. Regardless of scale, one common element is foundational to successful change: people.”
See also Lehman, Greener, and Simpson on “Organizational Readiness for Change”:
“A comprehensive assessment of organizational functioning and readiness for change (ORC) was developed based on a conceptual model and previous findings on transferring research to practice. It focuses on motivation and personality attributes of program leaders and staff, institutional resources, and organizational climate as an important first step in understanding organizational factors related to implementing new technologies into a program. This article describes the rationale and structure of the ORC and shows it has acceptable psychometric properties. Results of surveys of over 500 treatment personnel from more than 100 treatment units support its construct validity on the basis of agreement between management and staff on several ORC dimensions, relationships between staff organizational climate dimensions and patient engagement in treatment, and associations of agency resources and climate with organizational stability. Overall, these results indicate the ORC can contribute to the study of organizational change and technology transfer by identifying functional barriers involved.”