ABSTRACT

This chapter does not take the usual approach of most ‘how to do it’ books and merely offer its own prescription for ‘managing change’. Readers who are familiar with several of these texts will notice two things: that they have very different perspectives and prescriptions from each other, and few have any doubts about the self-evident correctness of their own position. This chapter will not follow this pattern and offer yet another blueprint. It will present, and evaluate, a conceptual model which attempts to explain how these different approaches relate to each other, and how each might be particularly appropriate for different types of changes in different contexts.