1st Edition

Understanding Organizational Change

240 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This exciting new text fills the gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view, which raises questions about the imperative of change, who’s interests are being served, how change programmes impact on employees and why organizations continually engage in such programmes. It gives readers a comprehensive history of: change management... Read more
Part 1: Introduction  1,.Why Study Organizational Change?  2.  Thinking About Change: Early Models of Organizational Change  Part 2: Programming Organizational Change  3.  Organizational Culture and Change  4.  Change Management Techniques and Strategies  Part 3. The Social Psychology of Change  5.  Managing Change: Fads, Fashions and Gurus  6.  Gender and Organizational Change  7.  The Politics of Organizational Change  8.  Making Sense of Organizational Change

Biography

Jean Helms Mills is a Professor of Management at Saint Mary's University, Canada. Her research interests are organizational culture and change, gender, the cold war and critical sensemaking. She is the author of Making Sense of Organizational Change (Routledge).

Kelly Dye, PhD, is a faculty member at Acadia University, where she teaches organizational behaviour and change management.

Albert J. Mills, PhD, is Professor of Management and director of the PhD program at St Mary’s University in Canada.