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Inferring causal interpretations of change-readiness using causal-models:a knowledge-based perspective

  • Khalid Samara
    ,
  • Shushma Patel
    ,
  • Dilip Patel
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Abstract

The ability to understand the conditions in which humans make causal judgements continues to arouse debate from cognitive science, philosophy, and even the domain of computer science. While for most organisations, change is a necessary impetus to sustainability, it is difficult to directly infer cause and affect relationships on human readiness without understanding how humans arrive causal inferences during a complex change situation. To explore the causal interpretations of human readiness-for change the research applies the systems thinking approach, utilising causal models to analyse the cause and effect of human readiness. The research contributes to a knowledge-based perspective examining the various factors effecting readiness-feedback, and how readiness-for change knowledge is received, and processed. The paper demonstrates the application of causal models to interpret the role of human readiness through a case study on the infectious outbreak of Clostridium Difficile (C. difficile). Then we propose a theory of readiness-for change through the lenses of Systems Thinking into a Knowledge Based Reasoning Framework.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 27-39

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/03/2011

Publication status

Published - 01/03/2011

Edition

ICT Innovations 2010

Volume

83

Publisher

Springer, Japan, India, Australia, Germany, United States, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, China, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brazil, France, Singapore

Publication series

  • Publication series name: Communications in Computer and Information Science Book Series

ISBN (Print)

9783642193248

ISBN (Electronic)

9783642193255

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625450
  • Scopus: 79952327704

Host publication title

Communications in Computer and Information Science Book Series

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