Managing Change in Organizations

This new edition by Colin Carnall offers a thorough, practical overview of how to achieve effective organizations. It is ideal for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate and MBA students on courses in managing change and organizational change. A strategic approach is taken throughout, outlining guidance and techniques for planning, implementing and reviewing and taking advantage of major organizational changes. This successful and popular text is particularly valued for the way it combines theory and practice in one volume to provide students with an invaluably comprehensive text. Contents include: Strategic Change, the Transformation Perspective, Strategic Management of Breakthrough Change, Management & in Action, Organizations in the Twenty-First Century, Sustaining Organizational Effectiveness, Managing Complexity, Leadership in Practice, Learning Organization, Strategies for Change, Diagnosing Change, Managing Major Changes, Change Architecture, Learning from! Change, Strategies for Corporate Transformation.

This new edition of Managing Change in Organizations offers a thorough, practical overview of how to achieve effective organizations. It is ideal for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and MBA students on courses in managing change and organizational change. This text is particularly significant for its strategic approach and its use of key techniques for planning, implementing and reviewing of organizational changes. Previous editions have proved successful and popular because of the way the book combines theory and practice in one volume to provide students with an invaluably comprehensive text. Key features and benefits:

• Diagnostic exercises to encourage students to identify what they know and evaluate their progress
• Strong, flexible pedagogy to allow the book to be used in a range of ways to accompany face to face teaching or by the student on a more individual learning basis
• Revised and improved coverage of corporate culture, breakthrough change, leadership and the role of leaders, the learning organization, RBV and core competencies
• Original material on change architecture focused on the design and management of effective change programmes
• New and updated case studies are included to enhance the global dimension
• New companion website provides material for tutors to aid in lecture and seminar preparation

Colin A. Carnall is Director of Henley Executive Programmes and Professor of Management Studies at Henley Management College