Managing organizational change : process, social construction, and dialogue / Muayyad Jabri

Defining change -- Constructing change -- Understanding the role of the change agent -- Constructing change through narrative and storytelling -- Constructing change through the field concept -- Creating readiness and the notion of sensemaking -- The problem-centric model of diagnosing change -- The dialogic model of diagnosing change -- Modes of intervening -- Understanding and managing organizational resistance -- Communicating change -- Making sense of organizational identity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Managing Organizational Change describes change as a socially constructed process, reinforced by the interactions of employees at all levels.The book emphasises the fact that change is an on-going phenomenon, not an event that will soon be over once the consultants have left, but a permanent feature of an adaptable organization.