TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endrejat, Paul C.
A1  - Baumgarten, Franz
A1  - Kauffeld, Simone
T1  - When theory meets practice
BT  - Combining Lewin’s Ideas about Change with Motivational Interviewing to Increase Energy-Saving Behaviours Within Organizations
JF  - Journal of Change Management
N2  - Although more than seven decades have passed since Lewin laid the foundation for how employees’ behaviour could be changed within organizations, his ideas are far from being obsolescent. Accordingly, this article demonstrates how Lewin’s concepts can still be of use in tackling current issues (i.e. the need to raise energy-saving behaviours within organizations). In order to revive Lewin’s concepts, we combine his approaches on organization change with Motivational Interviewing (MI), a facilitation approach that fits well with his democratic and participatory mind-set. After a theoretical consideration of how Lewin’s ideas could be accompanied by MI principles, we outline a practical concept for raising the level of employees’ energy-saving behaviours to a higher standard. The usefulness of our concept is highlighted on the basis of qualitative (a force field analysis) and quantitative (an increase of energy-saving norms and – behaviours) data. Lewin’s legacy for current organization development, and the theoretical as well as practical implications for how his ideas could be applied through a combination with MI practices, are discussed.
KW  - Kurt Lewin
KW  - field theory
KW  - group dynamics
KW  - motivational interviewing
KW  - energy-saving
KW  - organization development
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2017.1299372
SN  - 1469-7017
SN  - 1479-1811
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SP  - 101
EP  - 120
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -