Evidence and Insights
A curated library of recent evidence on organisational change, workforce capacity, adoption, absorption and psychosocial risk—with Australian evidence clearly distinguished from global research.
Featured Australian evidence
Safe Work Australia · October 2025The latest national WHS statistics report that mental-health conditions account for 12% of serious workers’ compensation claims. Their median time lost is almost five times that of other injuries and diseases.
Provides a current Australian cost-and-risk signal for looking upstream at work design, cumulative demand and the conditions surrounding change.
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Each article links directly to the original research organisation or Australian safety authority.
Across Australia and New Zealand, 61% of workers said developing AI skills was important, yet only 16% had received AI training in the previous year. Just 19% said their employer offered reskilling for people affected by automation.
Illustrates the gap between introducing change and creating the practical conditions that help people absorb and integrate it.
This horizon scan identifies psychological injury as a growing and increasingly complex challenge, often associated with longer time away from work, slower recovery and higher compensation costs.
A strong Australian risk and governance context for understanding why organisational conditions require early attention.
Research involving more than 10,000 senior executives examines how technology, economic disruption and changing workforce expectations are reshaping organisations.
Reinforces the need to adapt swiftly while protecting the conditions required for sustained productivity and long-term performance.
Microsoft reports that individual capability and organisational readiness do not always develop at the same pace as work is redesigned around AI.
Highlights the need to assess both how people are functioning and whether systems are ready to support new ways of working.
Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, while manager engagement declined more sharply and remains a central concern for organisational performance.
Reinforces the importance of understanding leader capacity as both a performance indicator and an organisational condition.
Gartner found that only 45% of employees reported achieving the change goals set by their organisation.
Supports a broader assessment of what enables sustainable adoption when employees are navigating multiple demands and initiatives.
Microsoft examines how meetings, messages and work outside conventional hours are fragmenting attention and extending the working day.
Provides evidence for examining cognitive load, focus, recovery and the systemic conditions affecting performance.
Only one in three business leaders surveyed said the last change they led achieved healthy employee adoption.
Suggests that successful change requires more than communication and implementation activity. The conditions supporting adoption also matter.
In Gartner's global employee survey, 79% of employees showed low trust in organisational change; organisations experiencing ungovernable change were less likely to sustain high change trust.
Trust is a condition for adoption. It can erode when the volume, sequencing and governance of change exceed what people and systems can absorb.
Safe Work Australia identifies high job demands, low control, poor support and poor organisational change management among recognised psychosocial hazards.
Connects the management of organisational change with legal duties to identify and control risks to psychological health and safety.
Framework foundations
These established theories provide complementary lenses on work demands, motivation, development, psychological safety, positive emotion and organisational systems.
Explains how the balance between job demands and available resources can influence strain, motivation, engagement and performance.
View source ↗Positive psychologyExplores how positive emotions can broaden thought and action and contribute to the development of enduring personal resources.
View source ↗MotivationIdentifies autonomy, competence and relatedness as central psychological needs that shape motivation and effective functioning.
View source ↗Team conditionsEstablishes psychological safety as an important condition for interpersonal risk taking, learning and adaptive team behaviour.
View source ↗Adult developmentApplies adult development theory to the growing complexity leaders must navigate and the perspectives they need to develop.
View source ↗Systems thinkingProvides a systems lens for understanding patterns, interdependencies and the conditions that influence organisational learning.
View source ↗How we use evidence
Conditions for Capacity™ brings relevant evidence together with anonymous organisational data and strategic interpretation. No single statistic diagnoses an organisation. The value comes from understanding patterns, context and the interaction between people and systems.