2. communication
“escalator” (Chapter 7).
• A new chapter, “The Effective Change Manager: What Does
It Take?” (Chapter
12), exploring competency frameworks, interpersonal
communication processes
and skills, issue-selling tactics, and the need for the change
manager to be
politically skilled.
• Improved visual appeal with more graphics and occasional
memorable cartoons.
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Providing the Skills to Successfully Manage Change
Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives
Approach, 3e, by Palmer, Dunford,
and Buchanan, offers managers a multiple perspectives
approach to managing change that recognizes
the variety of ways to facilitate change and reinforces the need
for a tailored and creative approach to fit
different contexts.
The third edition offers timely updates to previous content,
while introducing new and emerging trends,
developments, themes, debates, and practices.
Highlights of the third edition include:
• New coverage of contemporary topics throughout, such as
3. “depth of change” (Chapters 1, 4, and 12),
change in a recession (Chapter 3), the built-to-change
organization (Chapter 4), and the impact of
social media and the communication “escalator” (Chapter 7).
• A new chapter, “The Effective Change Manager: What Does
It Take?” (Chapter 12), exploring
competency frameworks, interpersonal communication
processes and skills, issue-selling tactics,
and the need for the change manager to be politically skilled.
• Improved visual appeal with more graphics and occasional
memorable cartoons.
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Resistance to ChangeResistance is a very real and common
issue that is often faced by change managers during the change
process.
Resistance to change may be the reason for the failure of an
attempted change. However, the reality may be more complex.
For example,
sometimes poor management of the change process can be more
at fault than resistance (in such a situation resistance might
even be a valuable ‘warning sign’)
sometimes change is welcomed (not resisted) because it is seen
as having benefits (e.g., improved security, money, or status)