Changes in the environment in which organisations operate have a marked effect on how they behave, how they perform and even on their survival. Such changes force organisations to adapt by reengineering, restructuring, changing the focus or location of their production or to downsize, each of...

This is the second article dealing with the changing nature of work, the previous one having been published in Industrial and Commercial Training , Vol. 35 No. 5. This deals with the managerial responsibilities for managing an organisation through a change process to maintain current levels of...

Purpose – The received wisdom is that team working is a good thing and is spoken about positively as a means of promoting co‐operation and of making the best use of employees' strengths. This article seeks to examine why this may be and to address the four areas highlighted by ACAS where...

Purpose – This is the second of two articles on teamwork which aim to deals with the selection and formation of teams, team leadership, team roles and team development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper builds on the first article which covered such issues as the reasons for moving to...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the concept of adaptive change. It aims to examine the literature on the subject and draw out some of the key lessons to be considered when seeking to manage change within an evolving world of work and it seeks to shed light on the increasing practice for...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the process of change and in particular the nature of complex adaptive change by exploring whether Beer and Nohria's findings that organisational change was rarely successful was corroborated by examining the experience of organisations in the UK. It aims...