Providing the Skills to Successfully Manage Change
Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 3e, by Palmer, Dunford, and Buchanan, offers managers a multiple perspectives approach to managing change, which recognizes the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts.
The third edition offers timely updates to previous content, while introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates, and practices.
PART 1 Groundwork: understanding and diagnosing change
1 Managing change: stories and paradoxes
2 Images of change management
3 Why change? contemporary pressures and drivers
4 What to change? a diagnostic approach
PART 2 Implementation: the substance and process of change
5 What changes—and what doesn’t?
6 Vision and the direction of change
7 Change communication strategies
8 Resistance to change
9 Organization development and sense-making approaches
10 Change management, processual, and contingency approaches
PART 3 Running threads: sustainability, and the effective change manager
11 Sustaining change versus initiative decay
12 The effective change manager: what does it take?