Organization Development
Business is changing at a break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge. This textbook provides a discussion of change in relation to the complexities of organizational life, offering comprehensive coverage of the significant ideas a...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
:
Pearson India
1900.
|
Edición: | [First edition] |
Materias: | |
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820411406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Organisational Change
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Author
- Business Organisation: The Domain of Change
- Introduction: Meaning of Business as a Domain for Change
- Organisation: The Key Area for Change
- Organisational Structure
- Types of Organisational Structure
- Forms of Business Organisation
- Private Sector Business Orgnisations
- Public Sector Business Organisations
- Co-operative Sectors Business Orgnisation
- Tools for Designing sound Business Orgganisation
- Organisation and Environment
- Environmental Factors Leading to Change
- External Forces of Change
- Internal Forces for Change
- Dimension of Environment
- Multidimensional Environment
- Stale, Changing and Turbulent Environment
- Nature of Organisation-Environment Interface for Change
- Role of Three Basic Circles for Organisational Change
- Summary
- Case Study: A Container Leasing Company
- Review Questions
- Organisational Culture and Change
- Introduction
- Sources of Culture
- Types of Culture
- Charismatic vs Self-sufficient Cultures
- Paranoid vs Trusting Culture
- Avoidant vs Achievement Cultures
- Politicised vs Focused Cultures
- Bureaucratic vs Creative Culture
- Significance of Culture During Change
- Concept of Global Organisational Culture
- Organisational Climate
- Functionalities and Dysfunctionalities of Cultures
- Fatalism
- Ambiguity Tolerance
- Contextualism
- Temporalness
- Collectivism
- Particularism
- Other Directedness
- Androgyny
- Tolerance for Power Distance
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Indian Culture
- Extension Motivation
- Synthesis
- Dependency Motive
- Fatalism
- Non-involvement and Non-commitment
- Individualism
- Irreality Orientation
- Top Management and Organisational Culture
- Managing Organisational Culture.
- A Proactive Approach to Culture and Change
- Summary
- Case Study: A Fortune 500 Financial Service Company Supported by Offshore Services in India
- Case study: "Globax" A High-tech Start-up Company
- Review Questions
- Concept of Change
- Introduction
- Meaning of Organisational Change
- Nature of Organisational Change
- Evolutionary Change
- Revolutionary Change
- Proactive vs Reactive Change
- Pressure For Change
- Nine Winds of Change
- Planned Change
- Types of Planned Change
- Levels of Change
- Change Cycle
- Participative Change Cycle
- Directive Change Cycle
- Is there a "Best" Strategy for Change?
- Advantages/Disadvantages of Change Cycles
- Organisational Barriers to Change
- Performance-Driven Organisational Change
- Rate of Change
- Organisational Effectiveness
- Differents States of Change
- The Future State of Change
- The Current State of Change
- The Delta State of Change
- Creating Change
- Implementation of Change
- Practical tools to Understands Change
- General Guidelines for Effective Change
- Summary
- Case Study: A Semiconductor Solutions Company With an offshore Development Center in India
- Review Questions
- Organisational Resistance to Change
- Introduction
- Reactions to Change
- Core Facts of Resistance to Change
- Individual and Group Resistance to Change
- Individual Resistance
- Organisational Resistance
- Consequences of Resistance to Change
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Startegies for Introducing Planned Change
- Empirical-rational Strategy
- Normative-reductive Strategy
- Power-coercive Strategy
- Techniques to Manage Resistance During Change
- Education and Communication
- Sense of Participation and Invilvement
- Assistance and Support
- Incentives
- Negotiation
- Manipulation and Co-optation
- Coercion
- Othr Strategies for Introducing Change.
- Summary
- Case Study: A Student Services Division of "National University
- Review Questions
- Organisational Change and Chane Agents
- Introduction
- Change Agent: Definition and Meaning
- Types of Change Agents
- Internal Change Agent
- Role of Internal Change Agent
- External Change Agent
- Need for an External Change Agent
- Key Roles in Organisational Change
- Corporate Management
- Consultant
- Internal Resource Personas
- Implementation Team
- Chief Implementor
- Task Forces
- Defferences Between Internal and External Change Agents
- Characteristics of a Good Change Agent
- Timing the Entry of the Agent/Consultant into the Organisation
- How to get the Best from the Consultant
- How do Consultants Work
- Importance of the Consultant
- What can a Change Agent Change?
- Structure
- Technology
- Physical Setting
- People
- Work Place
- Flexible work Options
- Telecommuting
- Flex-time
- Compressed work weeks
- Job sharing
- New Rules for Managers
- Summary
- Case Study: "Taj Mahal Group of Hotels" A Hospitality Company
- Review Questions
- Strategic Management of Change
- Introduction
- Three Basic Definitions
- The Task of Managing Change
- An Area of Professional Practice
- A body of Knowledge
- Strategic Management of Change
- Strategic Management Process
- Sequential Process of Change
- Change Process as a Problem-Solving and Problem-Finding Approach
- The Change Problem
- Change as a "How" Problem
- Change as a "what" Problem
- Change as a "Why" Problem
- Change Process as Unfreezing, Changing, and Refreezing
- Change Management: Skill Requirements
- Political skills
- Analytical Skills
- People skills
- System Skills
- Business skills
- Change Management: Four Basic Strategies
- Factors in Selecting Change Strategy
- Change Strategy Formulation and Implementation.
- Evaluation in the strategic Change Process
- Component of Evaluation
- Process of Transformational Change
- Guidelines to Management of Effective Change
- Twelve Principle for Managing Change
- Summary
- Case Study: A Multi-department Acadamic Division of a University
- Case Study: "Max" A Health Care Improvement Orgnisation
- Review Questions
- Organisational Diagnosis
- Introduction
- Meaning of Diagnosis
- Concept of Organisational Diagnosis
- Diagnocube: The areas of Diagnosis
- Theory in Action: Framework of Organisational Diagnosis
- Normative Approach
- Methodological Planning
- Callection of Data
- Overview of Methods
- Instruments of Data Callection
- Methods of data Callection
- Selection of Appropriate Method for Data Callection
- Summary
- Case Study: An Academic Department in a Public University
- Case Study: "Ma Foi" An it Staffing Company
- Review Questions
- Orgnisational Development
- Introduction
- Objectives of OD Programmes
- Basic OD Assumptions
- OD Interventions and Their Classification
- OD Interventions Techniques
- Sensitivity Training
- Team Building
- Survey Feedback
- Grid Training
- Process Consultation
- Management by Objectives
- Role Analysis Technique
- Role Negotiation Technique
- Force-field Analysis
- Prerequisites for Effective use of OD
- Criticism
- Conclusion
- Summary
- Case Study: An Electronic Imaging Technology Company
- Review Questions
- Manager as Catalyst of Change
- Introduction: Role of a Manager
- Developmental Supervision
- Hierarchy and Responsibility
- Task and Personal Growth
- Individual and Team
- Task Accomplishment and Boundary Management
- Responsibilities of a Manager
- Managers and Appraisal System
- Managers and Career Planning
- Managers and Training System
- Managers and Work System
- Managers and Cultural System.
- Managers and Self-renewal System
- Managers and Organisational Learning
- Managers and Stress Management
- Managers and Research
- Motivation as the Soul of a Manager
- Aspects of Role Efficacy
- Manager as Motivator of Employees
- Self-role Integration
- Productivity
- Creativity
- Confrontation
- Centrality
- Influence
- Growth
- Inter-role Linkage
- Helping
- Super-Ordination
- Using Power and Empowering Employees
- Managerial Control
- Coping Behaviour of a Manager
- Managing Frustration and Stress
- Consultant Support During Change
- Manager and Group Dynamics
- Three Uses of Group in Idea Generation
- Managerial Communication
- Obstacles in the Middle of Change and How to Overcome Them
- Classic Skills for an Effective Change Manager
- Summary
- Case Study: "Genesis" A National Scientific Laboratory
- Review Questions
- Learning Orgnisation: The Ultimate Objective of Management of Change
- Introduction
- What is a Learning Orgnisation?
- Nature of Learning Enterprises
- Adaptive and Generative Learning
- Knowledge-intensive Organisation
- Levels of Knowledge-Creation Process
- Building a Learning Organisation
- Feature of a Learning Organisation
- Total Quality Management and Learning Orgnisation
- Top Management's Commitment
- Customer Focus
- Measurement
- Continuous Improvement
- Supplier Teaming
- Teams
- Benchmarking
- Employee Involvement and Empowerment
- Inventory management
- Quality Costs
- Communication
- Training
- Blueprint of a Learning Orgnisation
- Managing and Sustaining Change in a Learning Organisation
- The Change Imperative
- Basics of Learning Approach in an Organisation
- Creativity and Innovation
- The Ultimate Requirement
- Summary
- Case Study: A software Development Company
- Review Questions
- Some Models of Organisational Change
- Introduction.
- Individualistic Model.