Managing organizational change : a multiple perspectives approach / Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, David A. Buchanan.
Publisher: Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill Education, [2017]Copyright date: c2017Edition: Third EditionDescription: xii, 451 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780073530536 (alk. paper)
- 658.406 .P174 2017 3rd ed.
- HD58.8 .P347 2016
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Revised edition of Managing organizational change, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Groundwork : understanding and diagnosing change -- Managing change : stories and paradoxes -- Images of change management -- Why change? : contemporary drivers and pressures -- What to change? : a diagnostic approach -- Implementation : the substance and process of change -- What changes (and what doesn?t)? : current concerns and developments -- Learning objectives -- Vision and the direction of change -- Change communication strategies -- Resistance to change -- Organization development and sense-making approaches -- Change management, processual, and contingency approaches -- Running threads : sustainability, and the effective change manager -- Sustaining change versus initiative decay -- The effective change manager : what does it take? -- Index.
"Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 3e, offers managers a multiple perspectives approach to managing change that recognizes the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts. It offers timely updates to previous content, while introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates, and practices. This edition include:
New Coverage of contemporary topics throughout, such as
"depth of change" (Chapters 1,4, and 12), change in a
recession (Chapter 3), the built-to-change organization
(Chapter 4), and the impact of social media and the
communication "escalator" (Chapter 7).
A new chapter, "The Effective Change Manager: What Does
It Take?" (Chapter 12), exploring competency frameworks,
interpersonal communication processes and skills, issue-
selling tactics, and the need for the change manager to be
politically skilled.
Improved visual appeal with more graphics and occasional
memorable cartoons." --Provided by publisher
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