ABSTRACT

Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools.

The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. The volume brings together the very best contributors not only from the field of organizational change, but also from adjacent fields, such as strategy and leadership. These contributors offer fresh and challenging insights to the mainstream themes of this discipline.

Surveying the state of the discipline and introducing new, cutting-edge themes, this book is a valuable reference source for students and academics in this area.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

The emergence of organizational change

part |104 pages

Planned change and organization development

chapter |15 pages

Kurt Lewin's vision of organizational and social change

The interdependence of theory, research and action/practice

chapter |13 pages

Organization development and international contexts

Values, controversies and challenges

chapter |17 pages

Appreciative Inquiry

Theory and critique

chapter |11 pages

Images of organization development

The role of metaphor in processes of change

part |68 pages

Newer approaches to change

part |108 pages

Perspectives on change

part |112 pages

Change in practice

chapter |15 pages

Leadership and change

Whatever happened to ethics?

chapter |22 pages

Management fads and fashions

Whatever happened to ethics?

chapter |14 pages

Power and Discourse in Organizational Change

The Case of Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

chapter |11 pages

Cultural change

Complexity and diversity in institutional tempospaces

chapter |9 pages

Changing attitudes to employee attitudes to change

From resistance to ambivalence and ambiguity

part |116 pages

Key issues

chapter |16 pages

Helping diversity matter

Fostering liminal spaces for authentic interaction

chapter |14 pages

Making sense of gender and organizational change

A feminist review of selected articles

chapter |13 pages

The moral of the story

Ethics, narrative and organizational change

part |82 pages

The future

chapter |14 pages

Organizational change

The aesthetic dimension

chapter |11 pages

The promise of re-enchantment

Organizational culture and the spirituality at work movement

chapter |18 pages

Social Materiality

A new direction in change management and action research

chapter |3 pages

Postscript

Change in a changing world – where now?