01868cam a2200289 c 4500 0 0 0 GIMPA kcl GEN 2010-10-22 Purchase 0 HD 58.8 PAL 57495 2021-07-09 2021-07-09 BK 542 542 9780073404998 0073404993 9780071263733 007126373X HD 58.8 PAL Palmer, Ian, Managing organizational change : a multiple perspectives approach / 2nd ed. Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2009. xii, 413 pages : Illustrations ; Includes index. Introduction : stories of change -- Images of managing change -- Why organizations change -- What changes in organizations -- Diagnosis for change -- Resistance to change -- Implementing change : organization development, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, and sense-making approaches -- Implementing change : change management, contingency, and processual approaches -- Linking vision and change -- Strategies for communicating change -- Skills for communicating change -- Sustaining change. This book "provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in producing organizational change. These multiple perspectives provide a theme for the text as well as a framework for the way each chapter outlines different options open to managers in helping them to identify, in a reflective way, the actions and choices open to them."--Cover. Organizational change. Organizational change - management. Organizational change. Change Management Dunford, Richard. Akin, Gib. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2008001633-t.html BK