Developing Change Leaders - Softcover

Aitken, Paul; Higgs, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750683775 ISBN 13: 9780750683777

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Implementing change is a major business challenge. Is your leadership up to the task?

With change initiatives failing so frequently despite many books on the market addressing separately the topics of leadership and change management, Developing Change Leaders tackles in one concise volume the all-important question of how to develop effective change leaders who make a difference to organizational life.

Providing the detailed practical guidance, frameworks and tools that competing titles lack, this how-to book will help you address the challenges of change and develop your own interventions.

Based on the authors' real-life experience of designing development programmes and coaching individual change leaders, Developing Change Leaders will help you to assess your readiness for leading change and develop the necessary skills to make change successful.

Considering the essential background theory, including the contemporary context of change leadership and broader organizational considerations which impact on change leadership capability, the book concludes with an overarching framework for use and adaptation by those responsible for developing change leaders.

Combining academic prowess and industry consultancy experience, Paul Aitken and Malcolm Higgs are the ideal experts to translate academic theory into leadership and human resource practice.

* Based on the authors' real-life experience of designing development programmes and coaching individual change leaders to help you increase your skills without the need for expensive consultancy and training on change leadership
* Structured in three parts to provide a flexible resource that considers the contemporary context of change leadership, values and leadership culture, and broader organizational considerations which impact on the nature, development and impact measurement of change leadership capability
* Concludes with an overarching framework for use and adaptation by those responsible for developing change leaders

About this title

About the Author

Professor of HR Management and Organisation Behaviour at Southampton University School of Management. Prior to this appointment Malcolm was the Director of the School of Leadership, Change and HR and Research Director of Henley Management College.He remains a Visiting Professor at Henley Management College. He moved to Henley from a role as Principal Partner in Towers Perrin's International Human Resource Management practice. In this role he was responsible for Organisation Change and Management Development, Assessment, Leadership Development and Training projects for clients and for developing programmes and strategies for human resource and change management. In addition he was responsible for the firm's International leadership development practice.

Review

"This book delivers a comprehensive, multi-dimensional work which will inform both the individual and organization on the necessary environment for and best practice in developing change leaders." Claire Collins, Director, Henley Partnership and Subject Area Leader, Leadership & Change, Henley Business School, UK

"This is required reading for students of business and more-than-useful general reading for managers in all industries and sectors across the world. This is executive education in a book." Professor Ken Parry, Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University, Australia and Founding Director, Centre for the Study of Leadership, New Zealand

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0750683775
• ISBN 13: 9780750683777
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318