Leavitt’s Diamond

Gen Mgt

a model for analyzing management change, developed by Harold J. Leavitt. Leavitt’s Diamond is based on the idea that it is rare for any change to occur in isolation. Leavitt sees technology, tasks, people, and the organizational structure in which they function as four interdependent variables, visualized as the four points of a diamond. Change at any one point of the diamond will impact some or all of the others. Thus, a changed task will necessarily affect the people involved in it, the structure in which they work, and the technology that they use. Failure to manage these interdependencies at critical times of change can create problems.

See also change management