Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation - Softcover

James McCalman; Robert Paton; Sabina Siebert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144627411X ISBN 13: 9781446274118

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Now a classic in its field, the fourth edition of Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation continues to offer readers highly practical strategies and step-by-step guidance for applying different models of change in different organizational scenarios. 

New to the Fourth Edition:

• A third expert author, Sabina Siebert, bringing a background in sociology and cultural studies
• An improved structure that consolidates all the existing strengths of the previous editions and separates the book into three parts, beginning with chapters assessing ‘The Impact and Definition of Change’, ‘Implementation and Evaluation of Change’ and ending with a critical outlook in ‘Change Management – A Critical Perspective’
• A wealth of new and richly detailed case studies with an international and cross-cultural scope that draw upon different organization types, environments and perspectives for a diverse and global understanding of the current field of change management 
• Two additional chapters on leading change and organisational culture, offering unparalleled coverage of managing systems and processes, combined with increased emphasis on managing human issues.

For students taking Change Management courses on Business and Management degrees, MBA′s, specialist masters and healthcare subjects.

About this title

About the Authors

Professor James McCalman is the Head of the Centre for Strategy and Leadership at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Professor Robert A. Paton is the Director of Graduate Studies, Adam Smith Business School, and a Deputy Dean, College of Social Sciences, at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Sabina Siebert is a professor of management in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests include organizational trust, distrust and trust repair, organizations and professions, and management in the creative industries. She employs a range of qualitative methodologies including discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and organizational ethnography. She has researched an ancient profession―Scottish advocates (an article based on this study was published in the Academy of Management Journal). She is currently the Academic Fellow of UK Parliament where she is studying the link between the institution of Parliament and the buildings in which it is located. She has published her research in Organization Studies, Work Employment and Society, Sociology and Social Studies of Medicine.

From the Back Cover

The new edition of this classic textbook in change management offers a lucid and engaging guide for readers through the technological, organizational and people-oriented strategies that managers use to implement change.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144627411X
• ISBN 13: 9781446274118
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 336