Managing Organizational Change by Muayyad Jabri
This ground-breaking textbook describes change as an on-going phenomenon: not an event that will soon be over but a permanent feature of organizational life. Taking a unique and refreshing approach, the text presents change as a communal process reinforced by multi-perspective stakeholder management with significant impact on individual and social responsibilities. It showcases how change is successfully achieved through relational communication based on conversations, narrations and storytelling. This approach has been extensively tested over many years in university education programmes around the world. Now in its second edition, Managing Organizational Change provides students with an insightful overview of change management that realistically reflects the needs of organizations today to respond to, include and empower their employees. Written by an experienced instructor and researcher, this textbook is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of change management and for those aspiring to become managers and consultants. New to this Edition: - An extended coverage of diagnosis and intervention with an emphasis on appreciative inquiry - Revised cases and newer conversational episodes from a wide variety of conversational settings - A variety of activities designed to engage students and enhance their learning outcomes Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/managing-organizational-change-2e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
As we search for more dynamic, complex and relational ways of understanding organizations, there is an urgent need to enrich our vocabulary of change - to treat change in organizations as if change matteredMuayyad Jabri's marvellous textbook moves us closer to this objective. It is filled with refreshing ideas and insights that make us think, and even feel, change. Drawing on process philosophies as well as state-of-the-art research on managing change, Muayyad invites his readers to appreciate the complexity and open-endedness of organizational change. This is insightful theory that makes a practical difference. Read this stuff and you begin to see organizations differently. * Haridimos Tsoukas, Warwick Business School, UK *
Drawn from a process orientation to change, this volume provides a refreshing twist to the traditional work in management and organizational studies. The twist comes through recasting classic topics in the change literature through the lens of dialogue. Readers are exposed to central problems, such as diagnosis, intervention and communication, but through reframing these topics from a view of change as unfolding over time, engaging with multiple stakeholders, and embracing relational views of openness and appreciation. The book is a must read for students and scholars of organizational change and development, communication and organizational change, and practitioners involved in change management. * Linda L. Putnam, University of California, USA *
Drawn from a process orientation to change, this volume provides a refreshing twist to the traditional work in management and organizational studies. The twist comes through recasting classic topics in the change literature through the lens of dialogue. Readers are exposed to central problems, such as diagnosis, intervention and communication, but through reframing these topics from a view of change as unfolding over time, engaging with multiple stakeholders, and embracing relational views of openness and appreciation. The book is a must read for students and scholars of organizational change and development, communication and organizational change, and practitioners involved in change management. * Linda L. Putnam, University of California, USA *
Muayyad Jabri is Associate Professor at the University of New England Business School in Australia. He holds an MSocSc from Birmingham Business School (University of Birmingham) and a PhD from Manchester Business School (University of Manchester). As a Visiting Professor in a number of universities in Europe and the People’s Republic of China (1997–2001), he has developed a keen interest in the philosophy of change as inspired by the work of Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North Whitehead and Mikhail Bakhtin. Muayyad previously held teaching positions at the University of Wollongong and Manchester Business School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781137468574 |
| ISBN 10 | 1137468572 |
| Title | Managing Organizational Change |
| Author | Muayyad Jabri |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2017-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
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