Based on their extensive research and work with organisations, V Nilakant and S Ramnarayan present a new model for organisational change that identifies four core tasks crucial to the success of any change initiative: appreciating change, mobilising support for change, executing change and building change capability. The authors contend that those change initiatives that do not succeed are the direct outcome of a failure to effectively manage one or more of these tasks.
Simultaneously, as it warns managers against adoping simplistic recipes, Change Management also explains how organisational change is about changing the way in which people think and act. This book suggests four fundamental ways of altering the mindsets of managers: tuning to the external environment and people`s mindsets inside the organisation; influencing and persuading people and strengthening communication; constructing change initiatives on the basis of cross-functional collaboration and challenging goals; and creating positive contexts that enable people to have faith in thier own capabilities. This book argues that effective management of change is about balance-balance between short-term and long-term, profits and people , overview and detail, continuity and transformation and between the feasible and the desirable.
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The book contained long illustrations of successful Indian organizations.... This is one of the books on the subject, with a neat and well-integrated framework, packing rich material in a small space. The book reflects the authors' deep scholarship and long experience in managing and facilitating change. -- Journal of Health Management The front cover, creatively and colourfully designed with landscape title positioning, seemed to hint towards a fresh 'CHaNGE.' Perhaps a desirable newness that I could, as a reader, expect to find in the pages ahead as well. My expectations were not belied. While the Foreword by P Chidambaram...imparts a credible appeal to this book, the Preface by the authors could be stimulating to a reader interested in excellence in/of India and Indian organizations....Nilakant and Ramnarayan, in this book, adopt an interesting, flowing, and engaging storyline, filled with useful conceptualizations and application tips for any reader interested in appreciating change, learning about change management, and wanting to bring about desirable changes in her/his organizational contexts. -- Vikalpa The book is academic in nature to the extent that it provides a model and research to support the assertions of the authors. There is a good review of literature and organizational data to support the model and its postulates, Students researching the topic would be delighted to find ample and accurate referencing and amzing lindages of data to concepts, Teachers would find that the models proposed have depth of thought and philosoply implicitly placed in the contents of the book. -- Consulting Ahead The front cover, creatively and colourfully designed with landscape title positioning, seemed to hint towards a fresh 'CHANGE.'...While the Foreword by P Chidambaram...imparts a credible appeal to this book, the Preface by the authors could be stimulating to a reader interested in excellence in/of India and Indian organizations....Nilakant and Ramnarayan, in this book, adopt an interesting, flowing, and engaging storyline, filled with useful conceptualizations and application tips for any reader interested in appreciating change, learning about change management, and wanting to bring about desirable changes in her/his organizational contexts. -- Vikalpa
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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978-0-7619-3468-4 (9780761934684)
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S Ramnarayan, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Business at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. A PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Management Training Centre, Pune, India, for about 5 years and later a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, for about 13 years. He has also been a visiting faculty at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Guest Professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany.
He has worked in different sectors on a variety of assignments in the areas of organization development, change, and leadership. He has carried out assignments funded by different international agencies, such as US Office of Personnel Management, Ford Foundation, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, Department for International Development, and German Science Foundation. Apart from research papers, monographs, and case studies, Ram has co-authored books such as Changing Tracks: Reinventing the Spirit of Indian Railways, Change Management: Altering Mindsets in a Global Context, and Managing Organizational Change, and has co-edited books such as Life After 360 Degree Feedback, Strategic Management of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries, Organization Development Interventions and Strategies, and Managerial Dilemmas: Cases in Organizational Behaviour.
Preface
The Change Management Model
Appreciating Change: Industry Analysis
Appreciating Change: Mental and Business Models
Mobilising Support
Executing Change
Building Change Capability
Leadership and Change
Index
