Consulting Staff on Change Management Initiatives Takes a Lot of Valuable Time and Effort - Why Not Just Let the Decision Makers Get on with the Task?

Purpose: The disciplines of organisation development (OD), organisational behaviour (OB) and supply chain management (SCM) share much in terms of the ongoing occurrence of change and how it is facilitated and managed. This paper utilises scenario foresight planning as an instrument of change management through the lens of OD, OB, and SCM. It gives particular emphasis on how the involvement and engagement of the people dimension [human supply chain continuum], contributes to the achievement of satisfactory outcomes. It seeks to outline progression in terms of both research into the fields and business process improvement. Design/Methodology/approach: The authors commenced an assessment of the relevant literature which informed the scope of their investigation. Having assessed the legacy and contemporary applications of both OD and OB, they then methodically reviewed authoritative textbook publications, and articles in leading SCM and business journals. This enabled identification of the extent and nature of coverage of people involvement in extant literature on systems-wide change management interventions Findings: This exploratory research identified the extent to which large scale change management interventions are addressed in the leading SCM journals. It also identified the nature of this coverage, thereby allowing the authors to make a number of recommendations for practitioners and researchers.