The Transitional Approach to Change

ISBN-13: 9780367329006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 280 str.

Opis

Bringing together several different facets of what is termed "the transitional approach", it will be valued by consultants, management students, practitioners and all those who want to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of organisational change. It will also be a highly welcome addition to the currently available literature that aims to p

Spis treści

CHAPTER ONE An introduction to transitional thinking CHAPTER TWO Organizational change theories and practices: a critical review CHAPTER THREE Some distinctive characteristics of transitional change CHAPTER FOUR Review as a necessary ingredient in transitional change CHAPTER FIVE The working conference design CHAPTER SIX Companionship with humans CHAPTER SEVEN Transitional interventions CHAPTER EIGHT The role of facilitators as mediators in transitional process: a South African case study.

O autorze

Gilles Amado, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Psychosociology at the HEC School of Management, Paris, is known as an expert of transition through two books he co-edited, 'The Transitional Approach to Change', with A. Ambrose and 'The Transitional Approach in Action', with L. Vansina, published in 2001 and 2005 by Karnac and which are indebted to the close work he had been undertaking for more than thirty years with Harold Bridger, a founding member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He is a founder member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, an associate member of the Bayswater Institute and is particularly involved in action-research and consultancy in Europe and Latin America in the fields of industry, health, education, music and sport.