Complexity, Management and the Dynamics of Change : Challenges for Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415417211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str.

Elizabeth McMillan

Opis

Shows how the insights of complexity science can allow managers to embrace the challenges and uncertainty of the twenty-first century, and oversee organizational change and development. Outlining the historical relationship between science and organization

Spis treści

1.  Introduction  2.  Stopping the Clockwork Manager  3.  Complexity Science: the Basics   4.  Change and the Dynamics of Change: Thinking Differently  5.  Complexity in Practice: Doing Things Differently  6.  Complexity in Action – a Case Study of the Open University  7.  Self Organizing Change Dynamics  8.  Essential Principles for Introducing a Complexity based Change Process  9.  Environment, Ethos, Values and Behaviours  10.  Innovating and Changing: Models for Experimentation and Adaption  11.  New Perspectives, Future Possibilities.