Table 1.

Future research directions

FFF classificationPotential research questions
Individual hindering force
  • Do individuals with more years of service impair organizational change outcomes?

  • Do individuals with a fixed mindset impair organizational change outcomes?

  • Do individuals high on the Hogan scale of cautious impair organizational change outcomes?

Individual helping force
  • Do individuals who are givers improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Do individuals with the Big 5 dimension of Openness to Experience improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Do individuals with higher levels of followership improve organizational change outcomes?

Organizational hindering force
  • Do higher levels of organizational inertia impair organizational change outcomes?

  • Do strong organizational cultures impair organizational change outcomes?

  • Does a concomitant high volume of change efforts impair organizational change outcomes?

Organizational helping force
  • Do higher levels of organizational justice improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Does talent proactivity as a hiring policy improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Do higher levels of turnover improve organizational change outcomes?

Environmental hindering force
  • Does national traditionality (or other cultural values interact to) impair organizational change outcomes?

  • What national laws and policies impair organizational change outcomes?

  • Do public organizations impair organizational change outcomes more than private ones?

Environmental helping force
  • What forms of social activism might improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Does gig or temporary work improve organizational change outcomes?

  • Does industry type, such as high tech, improve organizational change outcomes?

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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