Managing Change - A Critical Perspective

Building on the success of the first edition, this text is designed to cater for change modules on HR and business degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.Key Selling Features

• Explores how and why change occurs, and how this process can be managed effectively
• Offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions in this area and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood
• Critical perspective balanced with an improved learning features to make the text more accessible including an appendix featuring 20 popular change management techniquesNew to this edition:
• Increased coverage including new chapters on Perspectives, Power and Politics, Ethics, Agents and Agency, HRM, Evaluation
• Revised, more logical structure: the book will be divided into parts for easy navigation and the chapters will be restructured to reflect strategic, group and individual change
• Revised final chapter focused on evaluating the practice and theory of change management, concluding many of the debates introduced in the text Online resourcesFor tutors:
  Lecturer's Guide including commentary on questions and cases in the book
  PowerPoint slides
  Additional case studiesFor students:
  Annotated weblinksMarket
  • Students on UG Change Management modules and postgraduate modules
    
    
    

    List of contents

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Introduction
    The managing change conundrums
    Organisational change classifications
    History and organisational change
    The role of paradigms and perspectives External and internal change context
    Why organisations change
    Organisational design and change
    Strategic level change
    Group and team level change
    Individual level change
    Managing change
    The leadership of change
    Change communications
    Resistance to change
    Cultural change
    Organisational learning
    Development in managing change
    Power, politics and organisational change Ethics and managing change
    Change agents and agency
    Hrm and managing change
    Technological change
    Conclusions
    Evaluating managing change
    Appendix- the organisational change field guide
    
    
    

    About the author

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Mark Hughes is a senior lecturer in organisational behaviour at Brighton Business School, UK.
    
    

    Summary

    Explore how and why change occurs, and how the change management process can be managed effectively with this popular CIPD textbook.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hughes
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781843982418
• ISBN: 978-1-84398-241-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 53 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: UK Higher Education Business Management
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management: Führung und Motivation, Management: Innovation, Mitarbeiterführung, Strategisches Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management, Unternehmensstrategie / Strategisches Management, Management / Strategisches Management, Führung / Mitarbeiterführung