Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation

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• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $5.28

  This updated 3rd edition of a popular text on change management guides readers through the technological, organizational and people-oriented strategies that managers use to implement change.

  Revised to include power and politics, culture and gender, the authors have also added international case studies that set change management within the context of globalization .

  Change Management provides readers with frameworks for applying different models of change to different scenarios; offers proactive approaches to change that relate to business performance and gives practical, step-by-step guidance on handling change.

  Undergraduate and post graduate students who use this book will gain a greater understanding of change management in the workplace.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.42

  `Change Management is a well-structured and well-written book which has wide appeal for undergraduates, postgraduates and practitioners. It provides a comprehensive coverage of the issues related to organizational change and its management. It has a good, coherent structure which starts with a definition of change and a general examination of the antecedent factors, as well as the skills and competencies required of managers in facilitating the change process.... The style and content of the book are of an extremely high quality, indicating the book's deserved reputation as a core textbook in this area' - Leadership and Organization Development Journal

  This new and updated edition of the highly successful MBA and undergraduate text on change management uses current examples with a strategic focus to guide students through the issues and processes associated with managing change.

  The new edition:

  - provides a framework for applying different models to different scenarios;

  - offers proactive approaches to change that relate to business performance;

  - gives practical, step-by-step means of handling change;

  - illustrates with up-to-date real-life case studies.

  Students using Change Management will gain a greater understanding that effective solutions to change problems need to combine technological, organizational and people-oriented strategies. In this sense the book adopts a process-based approach to management. It will also encourage students to familiarize themselves with the different contingencies that affect management and the most effective measures for dealing with them.