Description

Managing Change in Organisations provides a practical and thorough overview of how effective change can be achieved in organizations. The text is ideal for advanced undergraduates, MBA and postgraduate students on courses in managing change and organisational change.

Colin Carnall takes a strategic approach, outlining guidance and techniques for planning and implementing, evaluating and learning from major organizational change. Reviewing traditional and more recent critical theories, he also presents models and frameworks for change that are apt for the complex and fast-moving challenges of contemporary organizations.

Features

• Short case studies with an international perspective
• Illustrations, diagnostic exercises, questionnaires and review questions enable the student to learn independently as well as in the classroom
• Synthesis of theory and practice makes it intellectually stimulating and immediately relevant

Table of Contents

Part I: Organization Change: Setting the Context

1 The challenge of change

2 Organization structures: choice and leadership

3 The transformation perspective

Part II: Theories of Organization Change

4 Theories of change: traditional models

5 Theories of change: critical perspectives

6 Theories of change: strategic management models

Part III: Themes and Issues in Organization Change

7 Organizations in the twenty-first century: the value-added organization

8 Sustaining organizational effectiveness

9 Leadership in practice

10   The learning organization

11   Strategies for change

Part IV: Change Management Techniques

12   Diagnosing change

13   Managing major changes

14   Change architecture

15   A strategy for organizational effectiveness

Part V: Strategic Change

16   Learning from change

17   Culture models and organization change

18   Strategic convergence: a new model for organizational change

19   Strategies for corporate transformation

Back Cover

Managing Change in Organizations – now in its 6th edition - provides a practical and thorough overview of how effective change can be achieved in organizations. At its core is an acknowledgement of change being about people and culture as much as structure and process.

Managing Change in Organizations takes a strategic approach, outlining guidance and techniques for planning and implementing, evaluating and learning from organizational change. Utilising theory and examples that the authors find helpful when advising organizations and delivering programmes on organizational change, Managing Change in Organizations presents models and frameworks for change that are appropriate for the complex and fast-moving challenges of contemporary organizations.

In particular this 6th edition has been revised to provide:

• newly developed case studies with an additional international focus, written by a range of eminent subject specialists
• easy navigation through a 5-part structure which covers the theories and themes, techniques and models of change management
• a focus on both traditional models and the latest theory as well as critical perspectives of change
• a model of Strategic Convergence to address the complexity of multiple change initiatives running concurrently
• questions and exercises to enable readers to test and apply their knowledge, skills and techniques

The text is ideal for advanced undergraduates, MBA and postgraduate students on courses in managing change, organizational change, leadership and organizational behaviour.

Colin Carnall is Director of Executive Education at Cass Business School, City University, where his fields of interest and expertise include leadership development and strategic change. Colin has played a pivotal role in the

development of change management as an academic subject area at leading business schools, and he is an active practitioner and consultant in the field.

Rune Todnem By is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Academic Group Leader (Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Change) at Staffordshire University Business School. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Change Management and is the co-editor of The Psychology of Organizational Change (2013), Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics (2013) and Managing Organizational Change in Public Services (2009)