The Essentials of Managing Change and Transition

Author: Society for Human Resource Management; Harvard Business School Press
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 9781591395737
Published In: April 2005
Format: Paperback , 265 pages
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CHANGE IS AN ESSENTIAL MANDATE FOR EVERY ORGANIZATION. The high failure rate of corporate change initiatives underscores the difficulty of this challenge. But for companies-and leaders-who manage change successfully, the rewards are substantial. Human resource professionals are uniquely positioned to champion change in their organizations.

The Essentials of Managing Change and Transition offers strategies and tools that will enable HR professionals to work side-by-side with other senior executives to:

Assess various approaches to change and set the best strategy.
Prepare the organization and employees for change.
Communicate information efficiently and effectively.
Reduce employee stress.
Use consultants wisely.

Co-published by SHRM and Harvard Business School Press.

About the book series

The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series is a co-branded line of books developed jointly between Harvard Business School Press and SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management).

This series will help HR professionals to become more influential strategic partners in their organizations by educating them in the core principles, practices, and processes of business and management. The purpose of the series is to help HR professionals develop knowledge and skills related to, but outside, the HR domain in order to make more strategic contributions to their organizations. These books will help HR professionals 'have a seat at the table' by becoming more proficient and literate in critical business and management arenas such as finance, negotiation, strategy, change management, etc.

Introduction

1. The Ever-Changing Workplace

2. Dimensions of Change

3. Is Your Organization Change-Ready?

4. Are You and Your Employees Change-Ready?

5. Eight Steps to Change

6. Implementation

7. How Employees Respond to Change

8. Helping Employees Adapt to Change

9. Toward Continuous Change

10. Common Change-Management Challenges for HR Professionals

11. HR as Change Agent

Appendices

Notes

For Further Reading

Index

SHRM (the Society for Human Resource Management) is the world's largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 170,000 individual members, the Society's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available.