Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation

PART ONE Setting the Scene: The Changing Landscape of Business Organizations
1 Introduction
2 The Process of Change, Creativity and Innovation
3 A Brief History of Management Thought in the Development of Concepts, Theories and Business Practice
PART TWO Change and Innovation in Organizations
4 Classifying Theories of Organizational Change: A Brief Overview
5 Change Management Practice: Choices, Lessons Learned and Key Considerations
6 Human Dimensions: Readiness, Communication, Sensemaking and Culture
7 People and Change: Power, Politics, Resistance and Temporal Frames
8 Conventional Frameworks: Planning, Diagnostics and Sequence
9 Interpretative Frameworks, Dialogical OD, the Learning Organization and Appreciative Inquiry
10 The Processual Turn: Politics, Context and Time
PART THREE Creativity, Innovation and Change in Organizations
11 Creative Industries, Innovative Cities and Changing Worlds
12 The Individual: Promoting Critical Thinking
13 The Group: Nurturing Teamwork
14 Fostering Creativity and Innovation: The Role of Organizational Structure, Systems, Resources and Culture
15 The Leader: Promoting New Ideas at Work
16 Conclusion