Managing Change, 7th edition

The aim of this leading textbook is to provide a thorough understanding of the theories, approaches and practice of organisational change. Managing Change critically examines the approaches to change that are on offer, indicates their usefulness and drawbacks and sets them within the broad context of organisational life through the use of real-life examples.

Hallmark Approach

The key themes underpinning the text are as follows:

• There is a need to understand the wider theoretical and historical context within which organisations operate and the pressures and options they face for change.
• Organisational change cannot be separated from organisational strategy, and vice versa.
• Organisations are not rational entities per se, although those who manage them strive to present their deliberations and decisions as being based on logic and rationality.
• There is a strong tendency to present the various approaches to change as being limited in number and mutually exclusive. However, in practice, the range of approaches is wide, and they can be and often are used either sequentially or in combination.
• The appropriateness of each of the available approaches is dependent upon the type of change being considered and the constraints under which the organisation operates, although these constraints and objectives can themselves be changed to make them more amenable to an organisation’s preferred approach to change or style of management.
• Organisations and managers can and do exercise a wide degree of choice in what they change, when they change and how they change.

New to this Edition

• More web-links situated throughout the text in order to guide students towards digital materials and resources.
• More international content included in order to reflect the increasingly international student cohort.
• More than 50% of the case studies will be updated.