Customer Reviews

Managing Organizational Change

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I got this book as it is required for the "Managing Organizational Change" class at Keller. It has many deficiencies, I list some of them below:

* Extremely bad paper quality (almost newspaper quality).
* Not very organized Table of Contents.
* Two-column layout makes it difficult to follow.
* Tables and graphics are not pleasant to the eye (everything is black and white and most of the tables don't even have a header row that you can easily differentiate from the rest of the table).
* An Index that they might as well not include, since it's completely useless. I haven't been able to find anything with it.

For the reasons above and many others, I don't recommend getting this book unless it's required for a class you're taking and you have no choice.

I have read six of the seven chapters in this book and I have to say it is terrible. I have never seen a book with so many grammatical errors and sentence fragments. For a second edition, it's terrible. As a student, reading and learning new concepts is difficult enough without sifting through poor grammar. Hopefully the third edition corrects all the mistakes, but until then, find a better book.

Required textbook for Keller course, authored by a Keller professor. The text is quite difficult to read and seems disorganized. The few chapters that are more clearly organized suffer from mistakes that are quite distracting. Chapter 3 in particular I found to be completely incomprehensible. I read it studiously, but could not connect one point to the next, did not understand any concepts in this chapter, and several other chapters also feel disjointed, oddly put together, as if thrown together from disparate articles.

In addition, the copy editing, proofing, and layout are quite bad as well. I have found numerous mistakes in the 2nd edition, including spelling errors and copy editor comments left in the text! I find it difficult to take the content seriously when so little attention was put into the finished book, but I'm required to for this course.

For the $80 fee Keller charged for this e-book, I expect the best textbook in the field, with professional copy editing and layout, professional quality figures and diagrams, and color. Instead, the only "figures" in this book are endless lists and steps, and there is not a single photograph or diagram within it's pages.

But how useful is the textbook with regard to completing the course? The course seems to have been based on the textbook, so the assignments and discussions in the course closely correspond to the material in the textbook. I expect more from John Wiley & Sons.

I was pleased with my purchase of this textbook. The book was in good shape and it came in a timely fashion. I was suprised by the packaging--it wasn't bubble-wrapped or in a box, just brown paper.

This book was a good read. We didn't utilize it much for my class but it was a lot of great infomation listed. The information is a great tool for managers and individual contributors alike.

The book has some spelling and grammer errors, but I needed it for a class textbook, so I guess it's fulfilling its purpose.

This book is a great book. It can be repetitive, but it has a lot of great ideas.

I found the book very useful with excellent information about change. It presents a fine synopsis of different change theories with good samples.

Read like someone was trying to feel important. Lots of information, thought.

This book was required for the HR 587 "Managing Organizational Change" class at Keller. Overall it is an extremely poor text. A few of the things I have found that could be improved:


* Very hard to follow, the book jumps around and isn't well organized.
* The book construction is cheap, reminds me of a comic book (unfortunately without the color).
* Table of Contents is useless.
* Two-column layout makes it difficult to follow.
* Tables and graphics are just fluff and don't add anything to the reading. Most of the time they are referred to once and not discussed.
* The design of the figures and tables is poor, column headings are difficult to identify.
* Index is useless.
* The Case studies are all outdated. Should have used more modern case studies.

The book was written by Bill Leban who is the director of business and management programs at DeVry University (Keller). He was assisted by two other Devry-ites. That is the only reason this book is used as a text, it is useless and wouldn't be used otherwise. One way to guarantee sales of your text. For the reasons above and many others, I don't recommend getting this book.