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Managing change in organizations / Stefan Sveningsson and Nadja Sörgärde.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, 2023Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 306 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529798982
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 658.406 Sv25m
LOC classification:
  • HD58.8 .S89 2023
Contents:
Introduction -- Perspectives on change -- Why organizational change? -- The tool-based perspective: planned change and organizational development -- The tool-based perspective: integrated organizational models -- The process perspective: focus an interpretations and understandings -- The process perspective: the importance of language -- The critical perspective of change -- The complexity of resistance -- Managing organizational change: practical lessons and key insights.
Summary: "This book explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. The unique approach is based around three key perspectives of change: how, what and why"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Managing Change in Organizations, second edition, explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. Its unique approach, based around three key perspectives of change, will help you to understand: How change is accomplished – the tool perspective; What change means for those involved – the process perspective; Why change is initiated (and whether it is necessary) – the critical perspective. Updated throughout to include new examples, case studies and exercises, this essential text offers you the chance to learn pragmatic tools for managing change, as well as gain an in-depth understanding of different theories and their values"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Perspectives on change -- Why organizational change? -- The tool-based perspective: planned change and organizational development -- The tool-based perspective: integrated organizational models -- The process perspective: focus an interpretations and understandings -- The process perspective: the importance of language -- The critical perspective of change -- The complexity of resistance -- Managing organizational change: practical lessons and key insights.

"This book explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. The unique approach is based around three key perspectives of change: how, what and why"-- Provided by publisher.

"Managing Change in Organizations, second edition, explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. Its unique approach, based around three key perspectives of change, will help you to understand: How change is accomplished – the tool perspective; What change means for those involved – the process perspective; Why change is initiated (and whether it is necessary) – the critical perspective. Updated throughout to include new examples, case studies and exercises, this essential text offers you the chance to learn pragmatic tools for managing change, as well as gain an in-depth understanding of different theories and their values"-- Provided by publisher.

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