Managing Change: A Critical Perspective - Brossura

Hughes, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1843982412 ISBN 13: 9781843982418

Casa editrice: CIPD - Kogan Page, 2019

Riassunto

Building on the success of the first edition, this text is designed to cater for change modules on HR and business degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Key Selling Features

• Explores how and why change occurs, and how this process can be managed effectively
• Offers a critical perspective, challenging the main assumptions in this area and ensuring that the complexity of the subject is understood
• Critical perspective balanced with an improved learning features to make the text more accessible including an appendix featuring 20 popular change management techniques

New to this edition:

Increased coverage including new chapters on Perspectives, Power and Politics, Ethics, Agents and Agency, HRM, Evaluation

Revised, more logical structure: the book will be divided into parts for easy navigation and the chapters will be restructured to reflect strategic, group and individual change

Revised final chapter focused on evaluating the practice and theory of change management, concluding many of the debates introduced in the text

Online resources

For tutors:
Lecturer's Guide including commentary on questions and cases in the book
PowerPoint slides
Additional case studies

For students:
Annotated weblinks

Market

• Students on UG Change Management modules and postgraduate modules

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Recensione

"Combines a wealth of research with case studies and questions to challenge and engage students. One of few texts to fully cover the depth and breadth of change in an accessible way. Suitable for a range of courses, from specialist HR modules to broader MBAs." --(Maryam Herin, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School)

"Current management education must be more critical in its approach and this book is positively pitched in that direction. The multidisciplinary, multi-perspective and critical approach of the book challenges students on a number of levels, and is balanced with excellent features such as examples linking theory to practice and the annotated list of key readings." --(Cecile Lowe, Senior Lecturer, Thames Valley University Business School)

"An extremely challenging, critical and student-friendly text. It is very clear and above all concise covering all the main themes needed by students." --(Carolyn Ward, Senior Lecturer, Teesside University Business School)

Descrizione del libro

Offers a critical perspective and challenges change management assumptions to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation of the subject

New to this edition: new chapters on perspectives, power and politics, ethics, agents and agency, HRM and evaluation; a revised structure to reflect strategic, group and individual change; a revised final chapter on evaluating the practice and theory of change management; and an appendix of twenty popular change management techniques

Online resources: annotated web links for students, an instructor's manual complete with commentary on questions and cases in the book, lecture slides and additional case studies for tutors

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: CIPD - Kogan Page
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1843982412
• ISBN 13: 9781843982418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 392