Change Management, 4th Edition

This book addresses some of the key issues related to change from a practical, hands-on and realistic perspective. It will help the reader understand how to lead change; engage with change and survive change. In the fourth edition, the focus remains very firmly on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of organizational change – competing resources; politics; conflicts of interest and understanding. But the reader also benefits from change being examined from two very different angles – the organized systems perspective and a focus on people development.

Digitalization, industry 4.0 and new mobility concepts, just to name some trends, challenge businesses but also provide new opportunities. Empirical research strongly suggests that the ability to manage change is a very important prerequisite with respect to coping with challenges and sustained success. Researchers and consultants recommend the implementation of professional change management processes or even the appointment of a corporate change manager.

This well-structured and comprehensive book provides the essentials of change management for leaders of organizations and consultants as well as students and researchers.

In a dynamic and unpredictable world, this text writes the roadmap for managing change. The student journey through ′Change Management′ tackles contemporary and global issues from various perspectives. In preparation for the graduate workplace, management and business students will find this text both purposeful and meaningful.

Professor James McCalman is the Head of the Centre for Strategy and Leadership at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Professor Robert A. Paton is the Director of Graduate Studies, Adam Smith Business School, and a Deputy Dean, College of Social Sciences, at the University of Glasgow, UK. Sabina Siebert is a professor of management in the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests include organizational trust, distrust and trust repair, organizations and professions, and management in the creative industries. She employs a range of qualitative methodologies including discourse analysis, narrative analysis, and organizational ethnography. She has researched an ancient profession—Scottish advocates (an article based on this study was published in the Academy of Management Journal). She is currently the Academic Fellow of UK Parliament where she is studying the link between the institution of Parliament and the buildings in which it is located. She has published her research in Organization Studies, Work Employment and Society, Sociology and Social Studies of Medicine.

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