Change is an inevitable part of organizational health and survival. Yet, the process of implementing change can be problematic. This presentation will introduce a novel framework for implementing organizational change and focus on a major theme of the process– gaining organizational buy-in. Fifty in-depth interviews were conducted with professionals who had experience implementing ergonomic change processes in organizations nationally and internationally. The majority of participants were members of, or recommended by, the Macroergonomics Technical Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Qualitative data from the interviews were analyzed with the help of the software program NVivo. At the end of the presentation, the audience will be familiar with best practices and lessons learned to gain organizational buy-in for implementing an ergonomics change process.
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