Description
All people in all organisations are concerned and involved with change, whether of the small-scale variety, such as adopting an updated version of a computer program, or of the large-scale variety, such as a change of strategy with subsequent changes in structure and operations. Consequently, no study of organisational life is complete without complementary studies of the way change affects it and how that change can be managed. In a world of constantly fluctuating demand and supply, of changing customer needs as well as the wider concerns brought about by the legitimate expectations of employees, change is essential. The impetus for writing this book comes from the belief that organisations and change must live comfortably together or else they will perish. Its content derives from many years of experience in helping meet the learning needs of students of business and management with respect to the way people in organisations approach and deal with change.
The aim of this book:
The overall aim of this book is to provide a discussion of change in relation to the complexities of organisational life. The text takes both a theoretical and practical approach to the issue of organisational change in seeking to meet both the academic and applied aims of most business and management courses. More specifically this text aims to be:
โข Comprehensive in its coverage of the significant ideas and issues associated with change at all levels of organisational activity from the strategic to the operational. Change is also examined in terms of its effects at the individual, group, organisational, and societal levels.
โข Conceptual in the way it explores and critiques theory and research with respect of organisations and change.
โข Practical in its provision of descriptions and worked examples of different approaches to 'doing' change.
โข Challenging through asking readers to undertake activities including responding to discussion questions. The text in each chapter is interspersed with activities intended to personalise ideas from the text and to reinforce learning. End of chapter discussion questions ask for longer and more detailed responses.
ISBN:0273624911
