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9781578513314: Breaking the Code of Change

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Provides a discussion on organizational change. This book presents a series of articles that address the question, how can change be managed effectively? It looks at two theories of change, and provides an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each theory along every dimension of the change process, from motivation to compensation issues.

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L'autore

Michael Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Contenuti


Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction Resolving the Tension between Theory E and O of Change
By Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria

Section I: Purpose of Change: Economic Value or Organizational Capability

Chapter 1 Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function
By Michael Jensen

Chapter 2 The Puzzles and Paradoxes of How Living Companies Create Wealth: Why Single-Valued Objective Functions Are Not Quite Enough
By Peter M. Senge

Chapter 3 Purpose of Change
A Commentary on Jensen and Senge
By Joseph Bower

Section II: Leadership of Change: Directed From the Top or High Involvement & Participative

Chapter 4 Effective Change Begins At the Top
By Jay A. Conger

Chapter 5 The Leadership of Change
By Warren Bennis

Chapter 6 Embracing Paradox: Top-Down vs. Participative Management of Organizational Change
A Commentary on Conger and Bennis
By Dexter Dunphy

Section III: Focus of Change: Formal Structure and Systems or Culture

Chapter 7 The Role of Formal Structures and Processes
By Jay R. Galbraith

Chapter 8 Changing Structure Is Not Enough: The Moral Meaning of Organizational Design
By Larry Hirschhorn

Chapter 9 Initiating Change: The Anatomy of Structure as a Starting Point
A Commentary on Galbraith and Hirshhorn
By Allan R. Cohen

Section IV: Planning of Change: Planned or Emergent

Chapter 10 Rebuilding Behavioral Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal
By Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett

Chapter 11 Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations
By Karl E. Weick

Chapter 12 Linking Change Processes to Outcomes
A Commentary on Ghoshal & Bartlett and Weick
By Andrew Pettigrew

Section V: Motivation for Change: Financial Incentives Lead or Lag and Support

Chapter 13 Compensation Systems and Organizational Change: Ideas and Evidence from Theory and Practice
By Karen Wruck

Chapter 14 Compensation: A Troublesome Lead System in Organizational Change
By Gerald E. Ledford and Robert L. Heneman

Chapter 15 Pay System Change: Lag, Lead, or Both?
A Commentary on Wruck and Ledford
By Edward E. Lawler, III

Section VI: Consultants' Role in Change: Large Knowledge Driven or Small Process Driven

Chapter 16 Human Performance That Increases Business Performance: The Growth of Change Management and Its Role in Creating New Forms of Business Value
By Terry Neill

Chapter 17 Assuring That Consulting Produces Benefits: Rapid Cycle Successes vs. The Titanics
By Robert H. Schaffer

Chapter 18 Scope and Involvement in Accelerated Organization Transformation
A Commentary on Neill and Schaffer
By Robert H. Miles

Section VII: Research on Change: Normal Science or Action Science

Chapter 19 Professional Science for A Professional School: Action Science vs. Normal Science
By Andrew H. Van de Ven

Chapter 20 The Relevance of Actionable Knowledge for Breaking the Code
By Chris Argyris

Chapter 21 Research That Will Break the Code of Change The Role of Useful Normal Science and Usable Action Science
By Michael Beer

Ending and Beginning

Chapter 22 Breaking the Code of Change: Observations and Critique
By Roger Martin


Epilogue

By Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria

Index

About the Contributors

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