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Managing change in organizations / Colin Carnall and Rune Todnem.

By: Carnall, C. A. (Colin A.).
Contributor(s): By, Rune Todnem [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Always Learning: Publisher: Harlow, UK : Pearson Education, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Sixth edition.Description: xiv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780273736417 (paperback).Subject(s): Organizational change -- ManagementDDC classification: 658.406
Contents:
The challenge of change -- Organization structures: choice and leadership -- Transformation perspective -- Theories of change: traditional models -- Theories of change: critical perspectives -- Theories of change: strategic management models -- Organizations in the twenty-first century: the value-added organization -- Sustaining organizational effectiveness -- Leadership in practice -- The learning organization -- Strategies for change -- Diagnosing change -- Managing major changes -- Change architecture -- A strategy for organizational effectiveness -- Learning from change -- Culture models and organizational change -- Strategic convergence: a new model for organization change -- Strategies for corporate transformation.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-350) and index.

The challenge of change -- Organization structures: choice and leadership -- Transformation perspective -- Theories of change: traditional models -- Theories of change: critical perspectives -- Theories of change: strategic management models -- Organizations in the twenty-first century: the value-added organization -- Sustaining organizational effectiveness -- Leadership in practice -- The learning organization -- Strategies for change -- Diagnosing change -- Managing major changes -- Change architecture -- A strategy for organizational effectiveness -- Learning from change -- Culture models and organizational change -- Strategic convergence: a new model for organization change -- Strategies for corporate transformation.

CIT Module MGMT 9024 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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