Managing Change

Description

This text provides management students and practising managers with an understanding of, and a guide to, managing the complexities of organizational change effectively. It discusses the techniques and methods that can be used to aid such change. Pt. 1. Introduction to change management : fundamental questions for organisations -- 1. Introduction to change management -- Fundamental questions for organisations -- Pt. 2. The rise and fall of the organisation -- 2. From trial and error to the science of management -- The rise of organisation theory -- 3. Developments in organisation theory -- From certainty to contingency -- 4. The culture-excellence paradigm -- 5. Alternative paradigms : Japanese management, organisational learning and the need for sustainability -- 6. Critical perspectives on organisation theory -- Postmodernism, realism and complexity -- 7. Culture, power, politics and choice -- Pt. 3. Understanding change -- 8. Approaches to strategy -- Managerial choice and constraints -- 9. Planned change and organization development (OD) -- 10. Developments in change management -- Emergence challenges emergent change as OD strikes back -- 11. A framework for change -- Approaches and choices -- Pt. 4. Managing choice -- 12. Organisational change and managerial choice -- Part 1. The choice process and the trajectory process -- 13. Organisational change and managerial choice -- Part. 2. The change process -- 14. Management, leadership and change.