Managing organizational change : a multiple perspectives approach /
By: Palmer, Ian
Title By: Dunford, Richard | Buchanan, David A
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BookPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Irwin, c2017.Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xii, 451 p. : ill ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780073530536; 9781259255113Subject(s): Organizational change | Organizational change -- ManagementDDC classification: 658.406 PA MA Online resources: Ebook | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 658.406 PA MA (Browse shelf) | Available | T0055999 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface --
Groundwork : understanding and diagnosing change --
Managing change : stories and paradoxes --
Images of change management --
Why change? : contemporary pressures and drivers --
What to change? : a diagnostic approach --
Implementation : the substance and process of change --
What changes (and what doesn't)? --
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.
Offers managers a multiple perspectives approach to managing change, which recognizes the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts.