Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change / Edition 5

by Esther Cameron, Mike Green

Overview

This definitive, bestselling text in the field of change management provides comprehensive guidance of everything needed to successfully navigate times of change.

Making Sense of Change Management provides a thorough and accessible overview for students and practitioners alike. Without relying on assumed knowledge, it comprehensively covers the theories and models of change management and connects them to workable approaches and techniques that organizations of all types and sizes can use to adapt to tough market conditions and succeed by changing their strategies, structures, mindsets, leadership behaviours and expectations of staff and managers.

This completely revised and updated fifth edition contains new chapters on digital transformation and becoming a sustainable business, new material on resilience, well-being and effective leadership, and new examples from organizations including Google, Burberry and Volvo.

Supported by "food for thought" and "stop and think" features to aid critical thinking and understanding, as well as checklists, tips and helpful summaries, Making Sense of Change Management remains essential reading for anyone who is currently part of, or leading, a change initiative. New and updated accompanying online resources include international case study question packs for lecturers and lecture slides with reflective questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749496975
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/26/2019
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Esther Cameron is a freelance change adviser and coach who supports senior leaders and their teams and organizations through change. Her recent clients include Shell, Tata Steel, Canaccord Genuity and several British government departments.

Mike Green is the Managing Director of Transitional Space, a consultancy firm that specializes in change management, leadership development and individual and team coaching. He is a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School and also delivers accredited programmes in change management to senior managers and change agents in the UK, Africa and the Middle East.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction; * Section - ONE: The underpinning theory; ** Chapter - 01: Individual change; ** Chapter - 02: Team change; ** Chapter - 03: Organizational change; ** Chapter - 04: Leading change; ** Chapter - 05: The change agent; * Section - TWO: The applications; ** Chapter - 06: Restructuring; ** Chapter - 07: Mergers and acquisitions; ** Chapter - 08: Culture and change; ** Chapter - 09: Digital transformation; ** Chapter - 10: Becoming a sustainable business; * Section - THREE: Emerging inquiries; ** Chapter - 11: Complex change; ** Chapter - 12: Leading change in uncertain times; ** Chapter - 13: Project- and programme-led change; ** Chapter - 14: Conclusion; ** Chapter - 15: References and further reading; ** Chapter - 16: Index

Editorial Reviews

"Managers on my courses have remarked that this book has been of immense value to them when planning and implementing change in their organizations."-- "Alec Bozas, Graduate School of Business and Leadership, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (About a previous edition)"

"There has long been a need for a readable, practical but theoretically underpinned book on change which recognizes a multiplicity of perspectives. I thoroughly recommend Making Sense of Change Management."-- "Professor Colin Carnall, Honorary Visiting Professor, Cass Business School, UK (About a previous edition)"

"This handbook, combining contemporary management theory with very practical suggestions, is an indispensable tool for any manager involved in change processes."-- "Adriaan Vollebergh, Board Director; former Managing Director, Tata Steel Plating, Tata Steel Europe (About a previous edition)"

From the Publisher

"There has long been a need for a readable, practical but theoretically underpinned book on change which recognizes a multiplicity of perspectives. I thoroughly recommend Making Sense of Change Management."

Professor Colin Carnall

"This handbook, combining contemporary management theory with very practical suggestions, is an indispensable tool for any manager involved in change processes."

Adriaan Vollebergh

"Managers on my courses have remarked that this book has been of immense value to them when planning and implementing change in their organizations."

Alec Bozas

"This book has long provided an invaluable toolkit for any change leader. The latest edition now equips change leaders to not only increase effectiveness, productivity or profitability but also to lead their organization to be part of the solution and not the problem as we seek to overcome the polycrisis society is now facing. By adopting the ecosystem as a guiding metaphor, it powerfully argues that change leaders now need to work on their inner transformation if they are to effectively lead this outer transformation. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to make a positive difference to their organization and our society."

Terence Sexton

"Whether you are overwhelmed by the speed of change expected of you or daunted by the prospect of leading the change that is necessary or aware of the complexity of change required to meet your goals in these challenging times, this is the resource you need. This revised edition is comprehensive, deeply informed, accessible, practical and visionary. It makes sense of what can seem incomprehensible and makes possible what feels insurmountable."

Lynne Tarrab-Snooks

"The most challenging change to manage is a change in paradigm. Yet that's what we are awakening to in the first half of the 21st century: not just an era of change, but a change in era. Making Sense of Change Management offers a practical guide to help us not simply manage this change, but to dance with it."

Founder of Capital Institute John Fullerton

"This delightful book offers leaders and those who work within change management and coaching a wonderful gift of support in today's challenging and traumatised world. The authors unequivocally lay out some of the challenges ahead in leadership both on the micro and macro level. They prompt us to reflect on the complex systems we are part of and the sustainability of these in relation to the world, planet and humane crisis we are living in. I particularly appreciate this new edition of the book bringing forward the need for regenerative principles to guide our work as leaders."

Clinical Director Tamalpa-UK and Coach for Organiz Helen-Jane Ridgeway

"As the world becomes more VUCA, both outside and inside our businesses, change management will only make sense through a regenerative lens. Cameron and Green offer profound insights into how we just might engage business in this regenerative journey towards a viable planet, sharing innovative approaches from some of the most forward thinkers as well as experience from pioneering regenerative organizations."

William Adeney

"Making Sense of Change Management has become something of a reliable best friend over the years; practical, thorough, reflective and, most of all, useful as a complete guide to all facets of change management. The sixth edition now includes topical chapters on the external and internal processes of moving towards a sustainable future for the generations to come, arguably the most important challenge that we face in our current times. At heart, it wisely remains what has made it so successful over the years, the sheer depth and breadth of its coverage of the field. For me, it remains the 'go-to' book when I want to expand my thinking, reflect on practical implementation or as a comprehensive refresher across the field."

Dr Robert Gorzynski

"This new edition is willing to look deeply into the inner changes needed to enable us to take positive action in the world. Drawing on multiple sources, it provides practical suggestions for leaders and individuals to enhance and leverage our capacities to effect global action at every level, on behalf of all life."

Hilary Bee

"A veritable cornucopia which clearly seats change management in the regenerative and societal challenges of today. Through inviting and insightful questions, based on rigorous and clearly explained research, this book asks us to actively engage and experiment out in the world both with the tools, techniques and case studies provided, and our own inner landscapes as (would-be) change agents."

James Barlow

"In these times of polycrisis, this updated and revised edition offers a compelling and urgent message to change agents, change managers and change makers: 'business as usual' is not an option."

Liz Goold

"This impressive book on change is an essential read for any professional manager who is serious about getting to grips with the important issues of making change happen."

Dr Jeff Watkins

"Provides a clear and thorough tour of different models of change"

Richard Jolly