Organizational Change in Action

This compact textbook provides an overview of how firms experience change and develops a critical lens of how change is managed at the organisational, individual and group levels.

The authors bring to the fore the human aspect of change management: how you can learn to enact change in an ethical and empathetic way, taking into account psychological and cross-cultural perspectives, as well as business imperatives.

Today’s volatile and uncertain business environment means that change initiatives occur with greater frequency than ever before. A focus on employability skills permeates the text, to ensure that you are prepared to lead change in your professional life. Exercises at the end of each chapter prompt you to reflect on learning and how it could be effectively applied in an interview context, while a realistic fictional case study runs through the textbook, challenging you to guide the senior management team following an acquisition.

Change programmes can flourish with the right approach, or flounder amidst struggles over power, culture, office politics and interpersonal relationships: Organizational Change in Action is a practical, contemporary guide to effective change leadership.

Louise Boulter is Senior Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln (BGU) where is she is operational lead for the MBA and MSc programmes in Business. Prior to her role at BGU, Louise has a cross section of experience at several Universities including The University of Leicester, Salford and Nottingham Trent. She has extensive experience of higher education and delivering programmes on change in cross cultural settings and in particular Southeast Asia. More recently, she held an honorary role at Middlesex University Business School.

Thomas Calvard is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on organisational change for over a decade and his research focuses on how organisations, groups and individuals make sense of shifting perspectives, limits and boundaries, with an emphasis on identity, diversity, technology, change and ethics.

Goudarz Azar is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Middlesex University London, where he is Head of Department of Strategy, Leadership, and Operations in the Business School. Goudarz has extensive experience in higher education, having worked at universities in Sweden and the UK. His research on organizational innovation is a key reference in the fields of International Business and Strategic Management.