"Transitioning organizations to the new normal following environmental shocks, economic upheavals and technological innovations is a challenge to classic organizational management, because no single organization knows with precision what the target of change is. Resources created and operated in...

"The literature on Change Management works from the premise that management possesses the power to achieve change and this is evident in that resistance is little more than a footnote in most textbooks. This assumption sits uneasily, however, with the high failure rate of Change Management...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Landscape of Change Management -- 3 Towards a Critical 'Relational' Perspective on Change Management -- 4 The Contextual Landscape -- 5 Metaphors-as-Power -- 6 Management...

What exactly is organization development? -- The beginnings of a puzzle -- Academic perspectives of od -- Evidence on the nature of practitioner od -- The evolution of published work on od -- Subject expert views -- Comparing the literature on od with the evidence -- A puzzle solved but not...

Foreword -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Why reconsider change management? -- Story of change : 18 leading assumptions in change practice -- Methodology -- Examining the story of change : Part I -- Examining the story of change: Part II -- Examining the story of change: Part III --...

Managing change and the role of polyphony -- The role of utterances in communicating change -- The role of dialogue in managing change -- The role of dialectic in managing change -- Styles of engagement: dialogue with dialectic -- Polyphony and organizational learning -- The verdict: embodying...