Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I The Rise and Fall of the Rational Organisation
• 1 From trial and error to the science of management
• 2 Developments in organisation theory
• 3 In search of new paradigms
• 4 Critical perspectives on organisation theory
• 5 Culture, power, politics and choice
• II Strategy Development and Change Management: Past; Present and Future
• 6 Approaches to strategy
• 7 Applying strategy
• 8 Approaches to change management
• 9 Developments in change management
• 10 A framework for change
• III Case Studies in Strategy Development and Change Management
• 11 Case studies in strategic change
• 12 Case studies in changing internal relationships and attitudes
• 13 Case studies in changing external relationships
• IV Managing Choice
• 14 Managing change
• 15 Organisational change and managerial choice
• 16 Management - roles and responsibilities
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index