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Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach |  | Authors: Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, Gib Akin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 38,253
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0073404993
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.406
EAN: 9780073404998
ASIN: 0073404993
Publication Date: March 31, 2008
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Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in producing organizational change. These multiple perspectives provide a theme for the text as well as a framework for the way each chapter outlines different options open to managers in helping them to identify, in a reflective way, the actions and choices open to them. The authors favor using multiple perspectives to ensure that change managers are not trapped by a "one-best way" of approaching change which limits their options for action. Changing organizations is as messy as it is exhilarating, as frustrating as it is satisfying, as muddling-through and creative a process as it is a rational one. This book recognizes these tensions for those involved in managing organizational change. Rather than pretend that they do not exist it confronts them head on, identifying why they are there, how they can be managed and the limits they create for what the manager of organizational change can achieve.
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 Basic college text September 15, 2008
ANNALISA DEMARTA (Rochester, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read most of this book for an MBA course on managing org change. I think it offers some valuable insight but should be coupled with other texts/articles for enhanced insight. Easy to read and understand.
A good college text May 9, 2008
fuzzalot (Dearborn, MI USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book goes in to good detail on the whys and wherefors of organizational change. The reader will come away with a very good understanding of the subject without a slant toward any single change methodology.
Organizational Change February 14, 2010
Denise Brannan (17202)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was received in quick order and in excellent condition. Would order from this source again.
Solid resource November 27, 2007
H. S. Gazzaz
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
worth the buy, good and solid information, well written, and a valuable add on for any business student
 Absolute Waste of Time! February 3, 2010
K. T. Williams (Austell, GA)
Listen, if you have nothing else to do other than read this book, consider donating your time to charity and you will get more for your money as opposed to reading this book. It's a bunch a jargon, useless tables, theories, and models that will get you thrown out on your can if you brought this mess up into an organization. Of all the textbooks I've ever purchased, I'd put this one at the top of the garbage pile as the poster child for people who stay in school too long and never get any real world experience. I would suggest that the authors get a job, start a business, and then write a book. I'm in a class of 21 people and we all feel the same way. I won't be trading this book back in. No no. That would be littering. I'm upset that I have to give it a 1.
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