Palmer, Ian, 1957-

Managing organizational change : a multiple perspectives approach / Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, David A. Buchanan. - Third Edition. - xii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Revised edition of Managing organizational change, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Groundwork : understanding and diagnosing change -- Managing change : stories and paradoxes -- Images of change management -- Why change? : contemporary drivers and pressures -- What to change? : a diagnostic approach -- Implementation : the substance and process of change -- What changes (and what doesn?t)? : current concerns and developments -- Learning objectives -- Vision and the direction of change -- Change communication strategies -- Resistance to change -- Organization development and sense-making approaches -- Change management, processual, and contingency approaches -- Running threads : sustainability, and the effective change manager -- Sustaining change versus initiative decay -- The effective change manager : what does it take? -- Index.

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Organizational change.
Organizational change--Management.

658.406 / IAN