Managing Change

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.