Mindfulness and Organizational Change: Where is the Bridge?

The environment changes in fast pace that might lead to an increasing number of uncertainties and risks. Studies of mindfulness are making an inroad into the management field, including its impact into organizational change. However, the relation between mindfulness and organizational change is ambiguous. It does not provide an easy understanding of how those two concepts are related. How being a present mindset and attitude will impact organizational change. This is a literature review paper that aimed to understand the rationale that previous studies have developed on relating mindfulness and organizational change and to learn the impact of mindfulness on organizational change. As a result, it is shown that mindfulness related to organizational change through various paths. First, through the mindfulness characteristic. Second, through the cognitive aspect that will influence the behavior then influence the success of organization change. Third, through the learning process. Fourth, through the member of organizations' transformation. Fifth, through the change itself. Moreover, the results of how mindfulness is impacting organizational change show several outcomes. First, the relation between mindfulness and resistance to change is indirect. Second, Mindfulness leads to some behavior that smooth organization change. Third, if organizations changed viewed as a process, then the process of changes can be done naturally.