From Broadway To Boardroom: Applying Principles of Organizational Change To Kinky Boots

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Keywords: Change Management, Dealing with Resistance, Overcoming bias

Abstract: Kinky Boots (Jarrold, 2005), the film, provides an example of an organizational change that students can analyze by applying Kotter’s 8 steps of change. This true story of a family business that needed to adapt to changes in the environment in order to survive provides an example of a successful innovation. Issues of diversity, stereotypes, and overcoming bias in the film create a complex situation for change that is applicable to the current day. See and experience one approach to using the movie to teach organizational change.