Organizations today are constantly changing. Leaders, managers, and employees within an organization need to understand how to implement planned changes as well as how to manage unexpected changes.

The sixth American edition of the book Organizational Change: Theory and Practice offers an insightful exploration of the nature of change, presenting the latest research and analyzing a variety of theories, models, and different aspects of organizational change. The author, Dr. Warner Burke, skillfully connects theory and practice by examining contemporary cases of effective – and unsuccessful – organizational change efforts, recent leadership examples aimed at transformation, and examples of planned and innovative changes. Additionally, it presents best practices that ensure the achievement of change.

The sixth American edition of the book includes new material, which among other things, presents: new insights into organizational change, evaluations of planned change models, fundamental principles for managing change, the importance of an organization’s history within the change process, and the influence of leaders on organizational change.

Contents

• Sources for understanding organizational change
• Review of organizational change
• A brief history of organizational change
• Theoretical foundations of business and organizational change
• The nature of organizational change
• Levels of organizational change: individual, team, and broader system
• Organizational change: research and theory
• Conceptual models for understanding organizational change
• Integrated models for understanding organizations, leadership, and managing change
• The Burke–Litwin causal model of organizational performance and change
• Changing organizational culture
• Understanding and utilizing loosely coupled systems
• Government agencies and healthcare organizations
• Transformational leadership
• Leadership in organizational change
• The change leader: selection and development
• Organizational change: moving forward with evidence
• Organizational change: summary and conclusions