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Managing change / Bernard Burnes.

By: Burnes, Bernard, 1953- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River : Pearson, 2017Edition: Seventh edition.Description: 649 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781292156040 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Organizational changeAdditional physical formats: Electronic version:: Managing changeDDC classification: 658.406 BUR Also available in electronic form
Contents:
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.
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 658.406 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38888000922793
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The aim of this leading textbook is to provide a thorough understanding of the theories, approaches and practice of organisational change. It critically examines the approaches to change that are on offer, indicates their usefulness and drawbacks and sets them within the broad context of organisational life through the use of real-life examples.

Previous edition: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Also available in electronic form

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Bernard Burnes is Professor of Organisational Change at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling.