A member of the PH OD Series! The material in this text is essential reading for managers, consultants, and other executives experiencing the "change-stability dilemma." This dilemma raises issues such as an organization's commitment to change, organizational culture, and how to increase and maintain productivity, creativity, and innovation in the midst of change. This edition examines the changing environment and provides a contemporary look at how existing knowledge and technology can be usefully applied.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Organizational Transitions: Managing Complex Change (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development) (Paperback)
This is one of the books that I've dog-eared, underlined, and referenced over and over, so much so that I'm on my second copy. It goes beyond the typical change management information, and gives valuable tools for assessing the readiness for change, identifying roles people assume in a change situation; charting responsibilities in a change process, among others. In my opinion, this isn't a book for scholars, it is a book for managers and those who help them plan and manage complex organization transitions.
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Pop-Psychology for OD,
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This review is from: Organizational Transitions: Managing Complex Change (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development) (Paperback)
Beckhard and Harris' book on organizational transition is easily one of the worst I have ever read on the subject. It is not necessarily the kind of information that is conveyed here, nor is it the style with which it is done. Rather, if you have even the slightest concept of the meaning of OD and related topics then your knowledge is perhaps well beyond the scope of this book. Though the book does represent a nice introduction to the management of change, it is hardly worth its price.It barely surpasses the quality of an average pop-psychology book but certainly is of little value to scholars.
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