Micro Changes: A Process Perspective on Organizational Change explores the organizational changes that are part of the organization's everyday work activities and micro processes. These are the ones that employees experience as the most radical, rather than the strategic ones we tend to focus on both in the literature and practice. Grounded in process theories and particularly process philosophy, the book unpacks organizational changes, showing that changes are fluid, pervasive, and always in a state of becoming, making them difficult to pinpoint and handle as they are everchanging.
To unfold what micro changes are, why they are critical, and how to work with them, the book zooms in on five types of micro changes: Everyday, physical, routine, relational, and identity changes. Through empirical cases and examples, the reader gets a unique and realistic insight into how micro changes influence organizations and are crucial to employees' well-being and engagement at work. Theoretically, the book draws on process theories, and each chapter includes reflection exercises or dialogue tools to inspire on how to continue working with micro changes, either in practice or academically. Thus, the book is relevant for academics, students, and practitioners as it gives a rare glimpse into micro changes, an often neglected and forgotten kind of organizational change.
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Foreword
Preface
Part 1: A process perspective on organizational changes
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Process Philosophy
Chapter 3: The Experience of Fluid Changes
Part 2: Types of micro changes
Chapter 4: Everyday changes
Chapter 5: Physical Changes
Chapter 6: Routine Changes
Chapter 7: Relational Changes
Chapter 8: Identity Changes
Part 3: Organizational changes in practice
Chapter 9: Concepts of Practice
Chapter 10: The role of the change leader
Bibliography
Index
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Signe Bruskin obtained a Ph.D. in organization studies from Copenhagen Business School in 2020. She has been a SCANCOR visiting researcher at Stanford University and a visiting Ph.D. fellow at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. She is also an External Lecturer at the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and an External Examiner at the Royal Danish Defence College.
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Selling point: This book illuminates the type of organizational changes that employees find the most radical.
Selling point: Grounded in empirical material, the book unpacks why micro changes are crucial to employees' well-being and engagement at work
Selling point: It unpacks a process perspective on change and shows its consequences for practice.
Selling point: This volume gives practitioners new insights into and a better understand of the changes that happen in organizations .
Selling point: It brings a new perspective on organizational change, which is typically missed in literature and practice.
Selling point: This book supplements the current literary field of organizational change and brings a new perspective
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ISBN
9780197801178
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
226 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
128
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