Managing Change: A Critical Perspective, 2nd Edition

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Building on the success of the first edition, this text is designed to cater for change modules on HR and business degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Managing Change:

- Explores how and why change occurs, and how this process can be managed effectively

- Offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions in this area and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood

New to this edition:

- Increased depth and breadth including new chapters on Perspectives, Power and Politics, Ethics, Agents and Agency, HRM and Evaluation

- Revised, more logical structure: the book has been divided into parts for easy navigation and the chapters have been restructured to reflect strategic, group and individual change

- Critical perspective balanced with improved learning features to make the text more accessible including an appendix featuring 20 popular change management techniques

- Revised final chapter focused on evaluating the practice and theory of change management, concluding many of the debates introduced in the text
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. The Managing Change Conundrums
2. Organisational Change Classifications
3. History and Organisational Change
4. The Role of Paradigms and Perspectives

PART TWO: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL CHANGE CONTEXT

5. Why Organisations Change
6. Organisational Design and Change
7. Strategic Level Change
8. Group and Team Level Change
9. Individual Level Change

PART THREE: MANAGING CHANGE

10. The Leadership of Change
11. Change Communications
12. Resistance to Change
13. Cultural Change
14. Organisational Learning

PART FOUR: DEVELOPMENTS IN MANAGING CHANGE

15. Power, Politics and Organisational Change
16. Ethics and Managing Change
17. Change Agents and Agency
18. HRM and Managing Change
19. Technological Change

PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS

20. Evaluating Managing Change
Appendix - The Organisational Change Field Guide
Mark Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Brighton Business School.
"Combines a wealth of research with case studies and questions to challenge and engage students. One of few texts to fully cover the depth and breadth of change in an accessible way. Suitable for a range of courses, from specialist HR modules to broader MBAs."

Maryam Herin, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School.

"Current management education must be more critical in its approach and this book is positively pitched in that direction. The multidisciplinary, multi-perspective and critical approach of the book challenges students on a number of levels, and is balanced with excellent features such as examples linking theory to practice and the annotated list of key readings."

Cecile Lowe, Senior Lecturer, Thames Valley University Business School.

"An extremely challenging, critical and student-friendly text. It is very clear and above all concise covering all the main themes needed by students."

Carolyn Ward, Senior Lecturer, Teesside University Business School