Leadership and Change Management

This book offers an insightful guide for academics, managers and practitioners, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of business studies. It focuses on how the theoretical foundations of leadership and change management can be used to effectively lead business organizations. Generally speaking, business leaders are beginning to recognize the important of change and transformation, not only as a means of retaining control, but also of demonstrating their own leadership initiative. Though new approaches, designed to make this task easier, are constantly emerging, in practice managerial change remains a challenge.
The book chiefly focuses on the open-social-systems model to provide a conceptual framework that structures and relates leadership theories and research to help business leaders manage change. A wealth of case studies and discussion activities that support the main concepts and theories are also included. The book’s primary goal is to help readers successfully plan and manage change and transformation. Tertiary education students who are taking business studies courses can also use it as a sourcebook for the principles of successful change management.

Tang Keow Ngang completed his PhD at the University of Putra Malaysia in 2003. He served as a lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Science, Malaysia since 2004, and has been an Associate Professor at Khon Kaen University, Thailand since 2016. He has been working at higher education institutions for nearly 20 years and conducting research on educational administration for 15 years.