TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmer,Ian
AU  - Dunford,Richard
AU  - Buchanan,David A.
TI  - Managing organizational change: a multiple perspectives approach 
SN  - 9780073530536 (alk. paper)
AV  - HD58.8 .P347 2016
U1  - 658.406 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Dubuque, IA
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Management
N1  - 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; Adult
N2  - "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

ER  -