Organizational Change in Action
Thomas Calvard author Louise Boulter author Professor Goudarz Azar author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:13th Nov '25
£130.00
This title is due to be published on 13th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This compact overview of change management today includes both classical critical frameworks and contemporary developments, as well as a focus on employability.
This compact textbook provides an overview of how firms experience change and develops a critical lens of how change is managed at the organisational, individual and group levels.
The authors bring to the fore the human aspect of change management: how you can learn to enact change in an ethical and empathetic way, taking into account psychological and cross-cultural perspectives, as well as business imperatives.
Today’s volatile and uncertain business environment means that change initiatives occur with greater frequency than ever before. A focus on employability skills permeates the text, to ensure that you are prepared to lead change in your professional life. Exercises at the end of each chapter prompt you to reflect on learning and how it could be effectively applied in an interview context, while a realistic fictional case study runs through the textbook, challenging you to guide the senior management team following an acquisition.
Change programmes can flourish with the right approach, or flounder amidst struggles over power, culture, office politics and interpersonal relationships: Organizational Change in Action is a practical, contemporary guide to effective change leadership.
I think that you are addressing the topic in a comprehensive and foundational approach – there is nothing like this on the market. * Peter Lucash, Northeastern University, USA *
Excellent range of support provided to academics. Evidences a strong understanding by the authors of the challenges facing those who teach in Higher Education and is clearly designed to support lecturers in delivering a change module. * Beverley Macmillan, University of Bradford/University of Sheffield, UK *
Has potential to create a one-stop guide for OD and Change Management. The level is most appropriate. I would use this within my undergraduate class and potentially a chapter or two in my MBA Leadership class. Some chapters would be useful in our Executive MBA program as well. * Chuck Kalnbach, University of Oregon, USA *
Timely as it has considered three very recent events that have impacted organisations greatly- global financial crisis, industry 4.0 and the COVID-19 pandemic. From a change perspective, the book is quite rigorous in terms of content as it provides a grounding in the theory and practice of Organisational change. * Manjit Sandhu, Monash University, AU *
The book looks a good final year undergraduate/postgraduate level text that would suit a similarly titled specialist module as part of an HR programme, or accompanying a more general HR module covering a number of related topics. Good mix of appropriate chapter titles addressing the issue of organisational change from a range of academic disciplines. * Ian Roper, University of Essex, UK *
ISBN: 9781350335967
Dimensions: unknown
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288 pages