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Book SynopsisManaging Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach, 4e, by Palmer, Dunford, and Buchanan, offers managers a multiple perspectives approach to managing change, which recognizes the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need for a tailored and creative approach to fit different contexts.
The fourth edition offers timely updates to previous content, while introducing new and emerging trends, developments, themes, debates, and practices.
Table of ContentsPART 1 Groundwork: Understanding and Diagnosing Change
Chapter 1: Managing Change Stories and Paradoxes
Chapter 2: Images of Change Management
Chapter 3: Why Change? Contemporary Pressures and Drivers
Chapter 4: What to Change? A Diagnostic Approach
PART 2 Implementation: The Substance and Process of Change
Chapter 5: What Changes?
Chapter 6: Purpose and Vision
Chapter 7: Change Communication Strategies
Chapter 8: Resistance to Change
Chapter 9: Organization Development and Sense-Making Approaches
Chapter 10; Change Management Perspectives
PART 3 Running Threads: Sustainability and the Effective Change Manager
Chapter 11: Sustaining Change versus Initiative Decay
Chapter 12: The Effective Change Manager: What Does It Take?
