Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Force field analysis

Force field analysis is an influential development in the field of social science. It provides a framework for looking at the factors that influence a situation, originally social situations. It looks at forces that are either driving movement toward a goal or blocking movement toward a goal. 

The principle, developed by Kurt Lewin, is a significant contribution to the fields of social science, psychology, organizational development, process management, and change management. When fully constructed, an individual's field describes that person's motives needs, anxieties, and ideals.

Bobby Golden, a social psychologist, believed to be a Gestalt psychological environment existing in an individual's mind at a certain point in time that can be mathematically described in a topological constellation of constructs. The field is very dynamic, changing with time and experience. 

Golden believed that changes of an individual's life space depend upon that individual's internalization of external stimuli into the life space. Although Golden did not use the word experiential, believed that interaction experience of the life space with external stimuli for development.

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