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Plan, implement, and evaluate organizational change

With the growing influence of the external environment on internal operations, organizations need to be able to adapt and change. Managers at all levels must diagnose organizational issues, develop a compelling vision, engage others in this collective journey, and bring change to fruition. This book helps leaders, managers, and students do just that. Click here to see author Gene Deszca speak about leading change and how to be an effective change agent.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Chapter 1 Changing Organizations in Our Complex World
• Chapter 2 Change Frameworks for Organizational Diagnosis "HOW" to Change
• Chapter 3 Change Frameworks for Organizational Diagnosis "WHAT" to Change?
• Chapter 4 Building and Energizing the Need for Change
• Chapter 5 Navigating Change Through Formal Structures and Systems
• Chapter 6 Navigating the Informal Organization: Power and Culture
• Chapter 7 Managing Recipients of Change and Influencing Internal Stakeholders
• Chapter 8 Becoming a Master Change Agent
• Chapter 9 Action Planning and Implementation
• Chapter 10 Measuring Change - Designing Effective Control Systems
• Chapter 11 Summary Thoughts on Organization Change

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Tupper F. Cawseyis professor emeritus of Business, Wilfrid Laurier University. He served as editor, Case Research Journal, for the North American Case Research Association. He has served on several boards of directors and was chair, Lutherwood Board from 2003-2008. Tupper was recognized nationally in 2001 as one of Canada''s top five business professors by receiving the Leaders in Management Education award, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Post. He is also the 1994 recipient of the David Bradford Educator Award, presented by the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, and the 1990 Wilfrid Laurier University "Outstanding Teacher Award."Tupper created the Case Track for the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, a peer review process for cases. He is author or coauthor of over six books and monographs including, Toolkit for Organizational Change--1st Edition, Canadian Cases in Human Resource Management, Cases in Organizational Behaviour, and several monographs including Control Systems in Excellent Canadian Companies and the Career Management Guide. Tupper has over 50 refereed journal and conference publications. In 2005, he received the Christiansen Award from the Kaufman Foundation and the North American Case Research Association (NACRA), and in 2007 his case, "Board Games at Lutherwood," won the Directors College Corporate Governance Award and the Bronze Case Award at the NACRA Conference. In 2009, his case, "NuComm International," won the Gold Case Award at the NACRA Conference.

Gene Deszca is professor emeritus of business administration and a former MBA directorand associate director in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at WilfridLaurier University. He played a variety of leadership roles at Laurier, including the developmentand launch of the full-time, one-year MBA program, the executive MBA program,and the undergraduate international business concentration. He was instrumentalin the development of the post-university professional accreditation programs for one ofCanada''s major accounting bodies and was a member of its national board of directors forseveral years.Gene loves working with students and practitioners and values the excitement, energy,and breakthroughs that can emerge from these interactions. He has served on boards andcontinues to teach graduate and executive courses, both nationally and internationally, inorganizational behavior, leading organizational change, and international business. Hisconsulting work follows similar themes for clients in both the public and private sectors,with a focus on framing and navigating organizational change and the development anddelivery of executive programs. He is involved in entrepreneurial initiatives that are in theprocess of scaling. One of these focuses on the development and deployment of public andprivate blockchains for use across a wide array of applications.Gene is the author or coauthor of over 100 journal articles, books, monographs, cases,conference publications/presentations, and technical papers. These include the booksCanadian Cases in Human Resource Management, Cases in Organizational Behaviour, andOrganizational Change: An Action Oriented Toolkit (now in its fifth edition) and the articles"Driving Loyalty Through Time-to-Value," "Managing the New Product DevelopmentProcess: Best-in-Class Principles and Leading Practices," and "Aging Well in ManagementEducation: An Interview." He is an active case writer, and his current research focuses onorganizational change and the development of high-performance enterprises.

Cynthia Ingolsis a Fellow, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership,Boston, Massachusetts. In this role, Cynthia coaches executive women on their leadershipskills, the change roles which they take up in their organizations, and the ever-presentquestion of how they care for themselves amidst the swirl of the external environment.Cynthia continues to research topics of interest to women leaders: how they give andreceive useful feedback; what''s the place of mentoring and being mentored as leaders; andhow women leaders gain and/or serve as corporate sponsors of other women.Cynthia received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Educationin organization behavior and a master''s degree in political science from the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. For twenty-plus years, she taught and worked as a Professor ofPractice, School of Business, Simmons University, Boston. She taught management communicationat the Harvard Business School, managed the 65-person case writing andresearch staff at HBS, and taught qualitative methods courses at several Boston-area universities.She serves as an editorial member of the Case Research Journal. She has served oncorporate boards for several organizations, including FOX RPM and Biosymposia.Cynthia''s research has been published in leading journals. Her research on executiveeducation programs has been published in the Harvard Business Review, OrganizationalDynamics, and Training. Her research work on creating innovative organizational structuresand change was published in the Design Management Journal. She has publishednumerous articles about careers in journals, such as the Journal of Career Developmentand Human Resource Development Quarterly. She coauthored two books on career management:Take Charge of Your Career and A Smart, Easy Guide to Interviewing. Cynthiais grateful to Tupper and Gene for their invitation to join the team to publish the secondthrough fourth editions of Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit and welcomesEvelina to the team to publish the fifth edition.