Managing change / Bernard Burnes

CONTENT INCLUDES:

Pt. 1. Introduction to change management: fundamental questions for organisations
1. Introduction to change management
Fundamental questions for organisations

Pt. 2. The rise and fall of the organisation
2. from trial and error to the science of management
The rise of organisation theory
3. Developments in organisation theory
From certainty to contingency
4. The culture-excellence paradigm
5. Alternative paradigms: Japanese management, organisational learning and the need for sustainability
6. Critical perspectives on organisation theory
Postmodernism, realism and complexity
7. Culture, power, politics and choice

Pt. 3. Understanding change
8. Approaches to strategy
Managerial choice and constraints
9. Planned change and organization development (OD)
10. Developments in change management
Emergence challenges emergent change as OD strikes back
11. A framework for change
Approaches and choices

Pt. 4. Managing choice
12. Organisational change and managerial choice
Part 1. The choice process and the trajectory process
13. Organisational change and managerial choice
Part. 2. The change process
14. Management, leadership and change.

Includes bibliographical references and index