The Role of Hearts & Minds in Organisational Change| Stephy Publishers
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Abstract
The aims of this paper are as
follows:
1. To put Hearts & Minds on
the map as a key approach to organisational change.
2. To explain the underlying
mechanism of Hearts & Minds.
3. To show that Hearts &
Minds can be equally successfully deployed for organisational change in the
commercial sector.
4. To explain how Hearts &
Minds achieves a higher level of permanence compared with other approaches.
The paper traces the military
origins of Hearts & Minds from the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo
Campaign through to the final version in
Operation Storm. The method
centres around working within the values of the target audience, focusing on
the needs of that audience and mimicking
the military model. The results
from the commercial adaptation are equally reliable as in the military model
and permanence of the transformation
is equally present.
The key reasons why Hearts &
Minds is effective and reliable is as follows:
• In an inverted way, fixes
problems that are important to the target audience, neither the Administrators
nor C-suite
• Addresses Needs & Wants of
the target audience
• Allows the target audience to
participate
• The target audience are given
the skills by a Training Team who chaperone them throughout the task
• The Training Team always work
within the values of the target audience
• Achieves a high level of
permanence
• Dignity is maintained at all
times
Keywords: Training Team, Needs
& Wants, Permanence, Values, Communication, Awareness
Introduction
Hearts & Minds was conceived by Sir Gerald Templer, the British High
Commissioner for Malaya, during the Malayan Emergency. The exact moment at
which he first used the phrase ‘winning the hearts and minds of the people’
does not seem to be officially recorded, but it was very soon after his
arrival. It was a telling phrase and caught on rapidly”.1 The Malayan Emergency
lasted from 1948-1960. “The shooting side of the business is only 25% of the
trouble and the other 75% lies in getting the people of this country behind
us”, wrote Templer in November 1952.
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