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S2 Episode 016: The Middle Management Trap - Why Your Most Critical Change Agents Are Set Up To Fail
Why do so many transformation initiatives "die in the middle"?
In this episode of The Human Factor Podcast, Kevin Novak explores one of the most overlooked failure points in organizational change: the middle management trap.
Drawing on foundational research from Kahn's 1964 work on role conflict and ambiguity, Likert's linking pin concept, and Floyd and Wooldridge's four strategic roles of middle managers, Kevin reveals why the people organizations depend on most to carry change forward are structurally and psychologically set up to fail. He introduces five psychological burdens that middle…
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