Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sets out to provide a practical overview of how to achieve effective organizations. The book offers guidance and techniques for planning, implementing and reviewing major organizational changes and suggests how people and organizations can cope with the pressures involved.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Brief contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I The Challenge of Organization Change
• 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
• Change16 Learning from change
• 17 Culture models and organization change
• 18 Strategic convergence: a new model for organizational change
• 19 Strategies for corporate transformation
• References
• Index