Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach

by Ian Palmer, Gib Akin, Richard Dunford

Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in producing organizational change. These multiple perspectives provide a theme for the text as well as a framework for the way each chapter outlines different options open to managers in helping them to identify, in a reflective way, the actions and choices open to them. The authors favor using multiple perspectives to ensure that change managers are not trapped by a "one-best way" of approaching change which limits their options for action.Changing organizations is as messy as it is exhilarating, as frustrating as it is satisfying, as muddling-through and creative a process as it is a rational one. This book recognizes these tensions for those involved in managing organizational change. Rather than pretend that they do not exist it confronts them head on, identifying why they are there, how they can be managed and the limits they create for what the manager of organizational change can achieve.

Genres: Business, Textbooks, Reference

432 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2005

Reviews

[Peterwilliam]

grad class text - no review or rating

[Wanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I cannot believe this book cost me $114.00. Text books are a form of robbery. I once bought a book on project management for a class and after the semester started realized I didn't have the required newer version. You know what the difference was between the two versions? The questions at the end of the chapter, the wording of which was identical in both versions, were in a different order.

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a handbook for organisational change leaders that inlcudes a selection of classic case studies and relevant research. It combines practical and theoretical material in a well-balanced way. Most of the research in the version reviewed (2017) is before 2014. The handbook needs to be updated in future editions with more current change management research.

[Diffysx5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic Organizational Change classroom book that grants a perspective from each change agent role. Highlights the role each person within an organization plays during the change project. Clarified my perspective about individual roles in the work center and defined the parameters of each. Great Stuff!