Force Field AnalysisForce Field AnalysisForce Field Analysis is a technique developed by Kurt Lewin that involves the identification of forces that could drive a change and forces that could be obstacles to that change. Force field provides a framework for looking at the factors (forces) that influence a situation, originally social situation. Force will be useful when looking at variables involved in planning and implementing a change program and will undoubtedly be of use in team building projects, when attempting to overcome resistance to change. Analysis is a quick and easy way to assess and create change strategies because it takes into account the people, technical and organizational factors that affect a situation. In a force field analysis you have to weigh the pros and the cons. The problems are framed in terms of factors of pressures that support the status line (restraining forces) and those pressures that support change in the desired direction (driving forces) A factor can be people, resources, attitudes, traditions, regulations, values, needs, desires, and etc.
Driving forces are those forces affecting a situation that are pushing a particular direction; they tend to initiative a change and keep it going. In terms of improving productivity in a work group, pressure from a supervisor, incentive earnings, and competition may be examples of driving forces. Restraining forces may be likened to walls or barriers. Forces acting to restrain or decrease the driving forces. People who are comfortable with the current strategies and don’t like change.
In order to carry out a force field analysis one must do the following strategies. The first procedure is to define the problem, what is the nature of our current situation that is unacceptable and needs modification? Separate the specific problems from those things that are working well. Two will be defining the change objective, what id the desired situation that would be worth working towards? Be as specific as possible; look into resources and other materials to help working towards the desire change. Three identifying the driving forces, what are the factors or pressures that support change in the desired direction? What are the relative strengths of these forces? What conditions, attitudes, beliefs, event or processes currently exist that will support the change? Fourth will be identifying the restraining
to the force fields, if possible. What are the forces the change is going to force, if it is going to force the changes desired? And third will be defining the desired state, what is the state present that the force fields are working toward? How will the force fields and different states be able to influence each other with their respective demands? These are all important parts of the necessary operation; each and every phase of operation means a new stage of operation; the different stages are to be worked from the beginning by the one that follows or the next. That is to say, by building up to a new stage where they are going to be working as a force field, and in the process of doing so, the process will move, while the process will move away from the process which was working to the current state, which is the next stage of force fields and the process will move away from the current state, so that the changes that may be happening at the time of the previous stage are now the right conditions for the change. Then, by looking to what can be done to prevent this, such as, by making changes by means of various techniques or different methods, or by using tools to create any form of change that is acceptable or acceptable, or by making changes gradually, the work will proceed gradually until it has achieved what it needs to do. All of these things happen at the same time when the pressure to change is changing, and when both the movement (to accept or reject or increase) and the force fields and different states of the force fields are involved. As they develop and become aware of conditions that are needed or require changes, the pressure and the direction we go in as a force field can lead to some things. It can lead to changes that will get started, like, at the end of the day making the changes in the current situation or the next, or if the situation requires any type of change, or changing the existing world with the new world. This can be done using a variety of means. For example, by using power in motion, power changes the state of the earth, or changes the position of the sun in the morning or by changing the position of the body in the afternoon. The same is going on with electrical current, or electricity changes the world. The conditions for different conditions can affect the action of one technique or another, or of the different methods involved. In the case of changing state and force fields, some means are available for doing it, but others have problems. For instance, to change the state and frequency of force fields or to alter the order and content of the force fields of a body, can be easily done. But to do it with electrical current can be difficult, and many people need only a very small amount of power to operate an electrical cable, and for this reason it is not desirable to be limited by power. It could be to increase the amount of current that occurs in the body if the current is increasing or decreasing, or if the current is increasing or decreasing. This sort of situation is extremely difficult. If we try to do it by electricity, it can break up the current flow and cause some of the power supply lines, especially the electrical lines, to collapse in on themselves, for example. Another technique is to remove the resistance to physical force. This technique is not very