Organizational Change

Mike Smith, John Beck, Cary L. Cooper, Charles Cox, Dick Ottaway and Reg Talbot
Additional contact information
Mike Smith: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
John Beck: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Cary L. Cooper: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Charles Cox: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Dick Ottaway: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Reg Talbot: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Chapter 13 in Introducing Organizational Behaviour, 1982, pp 261-278 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses organizational change. We will first discuss the difficulty of bringing about organizational change and then suggest some helpful perspectives for viewing change. These two sections will be followed by a discussion of the change process, where we view organizational change as a discrete, observable process of social behaviour. Since there are a number of change agents involved in a change process, they will be defined and discussed next. Organizational development (OD) is the application of behavioural-science concepts and skills to the change process in an organization. Under the topic of OD we discuss strategies and interesting methods of bringing about change in an organization. Lastly, we will suggest a variety of opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of well-known ideas about organizational change.

Keywords: Change Process; Organizational Development; Organizational Change; Change Agent; Work Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-16833-0_13

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349168330

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16833-0_13

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().