Understanding Change

Author : Linda Holbeche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136351949
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Change written by Linda Holbeche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is now so commonplace that people no longer talk in terms of the "whitewater epoch". Every sector of the economies of the developed world has experienced huge swathes of change in the last decade of the twentieth century alone. Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technological advances, has led many organizations to seek to re-invent themselves in the hope of being able to survive and thrive. In mature sectors in particular, where the pace of consolidation is accelerating, organizations have had little option but to grow through acquisition or be absorbed. Whether the change is labelled "continuous process improvement", "restructuring", "downsizing" or re-engineering", to employees, change usually brings with it added pressures, job insecurity and a consequent loss of commitment to the organization. Understanding Change: theory, implementation and success argues that strategic change in the new millennium will be geared increasingly to achieving sustainable high performance, rather than just short-term gains. Most theorists now agree that the real challenge of change lies in gaining employees" willingness to commit to the change effort. Change leaders at every level need to be able to understand the elements at work in any change process, and to use judgement about the style of leadership required to give the change effort the best chance of success. Understanding Change: theory, implementation and success provides an overview of change and organizational theory, leading in particular to the author"s definition of the "input" elements of the high performance organisation, based on extensive research into UK and international organisations. It also contains a section looking at the management of change, with case studies illustrating approaches to managing change which are conducive to achieving sustainable high performance. In her companion book, The High Performance Organization- creating dynamic stability, the author explores some of the "how to"s" of building an organizational culture which is supportive of high performance in today"s challenging environment.

Author : A. Wimmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524648
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Change written by A. Wimmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can economics, the natural and the social sciences learn from each other in better understanding complex forms of change? How far can models, methodologies or metaphors that have been used successfully in one disciplinary field be 'exported' and meaningfully applied to other fields? Distinguished researchers from across the globe assess, in a rare example of successful cross-disciplinary engagement, the explanatory power of chaos theory, new evolutionary theory, path dependency, neo-institutional economics, multiple modernities and historical institutionalism. The book provides an exciting panorama of state of the art thinking and new avenues to combining the power of various traditions of thought.

Author : Adrianna Kezar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136293825
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Colleges Change written by Adrianna Kezar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education is in an unprecedented time of change and reform. To address these challenges, university leaders tend to focus on specific interventions and programs, but ignore the change processes and the contexts that would lead to success. Joining theory and practice, How Colleges Change unmasks problematic assumptions that change agents typically possess and provides research-based principles for approaching change. Framed by decades of research, this monumental book offers fresh insights into understanding, leading, and enacting change. Recognizing that internal and external conditions shape and frame change processes, Kezar presents an overarching practical framework that can be applied to any organizational challenge and context. How Colleges Change is a crucial resource for aspiring and practicing campus leaders, higher education practitioners, scholars, faculty, and staff who want to learn how to apply change strategies in their own institutions.

Author : Adrianna Kezar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351356216
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Colleges Change written by Adrianna Kezar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining theory and practice, How Colleges Change unmasks problematic assumptions that university leaders and change agents typically possess, and provides research-based principles for approaching change. Featuring case studies, teaching questions, change tools, and a greater focus on scaling change, this monumental new edition offers updated content and fresh insights into understanding, leading, and enacting change. Recognizing that internal and external conditions shape and frame change processes, Kezar presents an overarching practical toolkit—a framework for analyzing change, as well as a set of theoretical perspectives to apply that framework in order to custom-design a change process, no matter the organizational challenge or context. How Colleges Change is a crucial resource for aspiring and practicing campus leaders, higher education practitioners, scholars, faculty, and staff who want to become agents of change in their own institutions.

Author : Sarah Burch
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487518390
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Climate Change written by Sarah Burch and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change examines climate change as both a scientific and a public policy issue. Sarah L. Burch and Sara E. Harris explain the basics of the climate system, climate models and prediction, and human and biophysical impacts, as well as strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The second edition has been fully updated throughout, including coverage of new advances in climate modelling and of the shifting landscape of renewable energy production and distribution. A brand new chapter discusses global governance, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, as well as mitigation efforts at the national and subnational levels. This new chapter makes the book even more relevant to climate change courses housed in social sciences departments such as political science and geography. An effective and integrated introduction to an urgent and controversial issue, this book is well-suited to adoption in a variety of introductory climate change courses found in a number of science and social science departments. Its ultimate goal is to equip readers with the tools needed to become constructive participants in the human response to climate change.

Author : Patrick Dawson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761971603
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Organizational Change written by Patrick Dawson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eschewing the hyperbole of many current management books Patrick Dawson uses the views and experiences of people from the shop floor to the upper reaches of executive management to further our understanding of complex organizational change processes.

Author : David L. Haberman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253056012
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds written by David L. Haberman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld,edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change. Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds offers a transnational view of how religion reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences the challenges of climate change.

Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446655
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Language Change written by April M. S. McMahon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

Author : Jean Helms-Mills
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134253168
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Organizational Change written by Jean Helms-Mills and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new text fills the gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view, which raises questions about the imperative of change, who’s interests are being served, how change programmes impact on employees and why organizations continually engage in such programmes. It gives readers a comprehensive history of: change management literature types of change techniques over time (i.e. TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, etc.) the role of management gurus in the rise and fall of management fashions the impact of organizational change on organizational members. The authors provide case vignettes of companies from both sides of the Atlantic, which have undergone some of the better-known change techniques, and explore the reasons for their successes and failures. This is an innovative and important new text for students of organizational behaviour, organizational change, strategy and HRM.

Author : Linda Holbeche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136357696
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Performance Organization written by Linda Holbeche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively. The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent. This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.