This 2008 research paper from Emerald Insight – Achieving organisational change through values alignment – investigates the importance of values alignment in successful change strategies.
It concludes that widespread resistance to organisational change is caused by a failure of current organisational change strategies to attend to a values alignment process for all those people affected by the desired change.
Moreover, values alignment may not just be an important integral part of organisational change strategies; it could well be the bedrock, the foundation, on which all truly successful organisational change depends
It’s a dense read but worth considering if you’re wondering why your change strategy is meeting more resistance than you anticipated.