Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 4th Edition

1260597954 · 9781260597950

Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 4e, by Palmer, Dunford, and Buchanan, 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.

The fourth edition offers timely updates to previous content, while introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates, and practices.

PART 1 Groundwork: Understanding and Diagnosing Change 
Chapter 1: Managing Change Stories and Paradoxes 
Chapter 2: Images of Change Management 
Chapter 3: Why Change? Contemporary Pressures and Drivers
Chapter 4: What to Change? A Diagnostic Approach 
PART 2 Implementation: The Substance and Process of Change 
Chapter 5: What Changes? 
Chapter 6: Purpose and Vision 
Chapter 7: Change Communication Strategies 
Chapter 8: Resistance to Change 
Chapter 9: Organization Development and Sense-Making Approaches 
Chapter 10; Change Management Perspectives 
PART 3 Running Threads: Sustainability and the Effective Change Manager 
Chapter 11: Sustaining Change versus Initiative Decay 
Chapter 12: The Effective Change Manager: What Does It Take?