Managing Change: A Critical Perspective

by Mark Hughes

Managing A Critical Perspective explores how and why change occurs in organizations and how the change process can be managed effectively. Complete with an appendix featuring twenty popular change management techniques, it is an ideal core textbook for change modules on HR and business degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood and appreciated.

This fully updated 2nd edition of Managing A Critical Perspective includes new chapters on perspectives, power and politics, ethics, agents and agency, HRM and evaluation. Its revised structure reflects strategic, group and individual change, and a revised final chapter evaluates the practice and theory of change management. Online supporting resources include annotated weblinks for students, an instructor’s manual complete with commentary on questions and cases in the book and lecture slides and additional case studies for tutors.

392 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

I enjoyed working for over three decades as an academic, writing many journal papers and books. My final academic role was Reader in Organizational Change.

Post academia I have time to read for pleasure, which is a joy. I also still do some writing for my site: woodlanddecay.com. You will find further information about me at that site.

I believe that we all eventually return to nature. As I shift from doing to being I am enjoying reconnecting with the natural world.

Reviews

[Beverley Macmillan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A superb text book. The critical perspective it provides is excellent, digging beneath the surface of change management theories and ideas to provide nuance and alternative insights.