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Do you need a Change Agent or a Change Manager?

Take this short assessment to determine whether a change agent or a change manager is the best fit for your change initiative – or if additional resources are needed.

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Change Agent or Change Manager Assessment

Is Your Organization Ready for Change?

Take any of the short quizzes below to assess your and your organization’s change readiness.

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General Trust
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Resistance to Change
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Change Cynicism
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General Anger
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Acceptance of Change
Psychological Safety
Psychological Safety
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Tolerance to Ambiguity
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Employee Engagement

These quizzes are based on the research articles below:

  • Budner, S. (1962, March 1). Intolerance of ambiguity as a personality variable. Journal of Personality, 29-50.
  • Di Fabio, A., & Gori, A. (2016). Developing a New Instrument for Assessing Acceptance of Change. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(802). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00802
  • Edmondson, A. C. (2018). The Fearless Organization. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Oreg, S. (2003). Resistance to Change: Developing an Individual Differences Measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), 680-693.
  • Shuck, B., Adelson, J. L., & Reio Jr, T. G. (2017, November-December). The Employee Engagement Scale: Initial Evidence for Construct Validity and Implications for Theory and Practice. Human Resource Management, 56(6), 953-977. doi:10.1002/hrm.21811
  • Snell, J. W., Gum, S., Shuck, R. L., Mosley, J. A., & Hite, T. L. (1995, March). The Clinical Anger Scale: Preliminary Reliability and Validity. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51(2), 215-226.
  • Wanous, J. P., Reichers, A. E., & Austin, J. T. (2000). Cynicism About Organizational Change. Group & Organization Management, 25(2), 132-153.
  • Yamagishi, T., & Sato, K. (1986). Motivational Bases of the Public Goods Problem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50(1), 67-73.