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Managing organizational change : a multiple perspectives approach / Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, David A. Buchanan.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill Education, [2017]Copyright date: c2017Edition: Third EditionDescription: xii, 451 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780073530536 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.406 .P174 2017 3rd ed.
LOC classification:
  • HD58.8 .P347 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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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