Leadership and the Art of Change

A Practical Guide to Organizational Transformation

Lee Roy Beach

180 pages, parution le 31/07/2005

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Résumé

Most books on leadership and organizational change focus on descriptive theory and research, simplistic and questionable gimmicks, or biographical sketches of successful leaders whose character and exploits students are encouraged to emulate. Leadership and the Art of Change avoids pedantry, gimmicks, and hero worship while addressing the complex issues involved in trying to lead an organization. It does not bury the reader in abstractions, nor does it offer quick fixes.

Leadership and the Art of Change is a unique book in that it focuses on a leader's central and most daunting task-achieving organizational change that successfully addresses external and internal threats and opportunities. Author Lee Roy Beach uses six prime responsibilities as the framework for discussing change leadership: external and internal environmental assessment to identify required changes, organizational culture as a constraint on change, vision for motivating change, plans as a map for change, implementation to produce change, and follow-through for institutionalizing achieved changes and making ongoing change a part of the culture.

Key Features:

Defines leadership as the art of producing changes in an organization's environment, its culture, and its practices in pursuit of survival and prosperity
Explains the importance of organizational culture as the key to facilitating or inhibiting change
Examines methods for building a vision and leveraging culture in order to move the organization toward the vision with implementation strategies
Offers self-summary exercises as well as a new episode of an ongoing vignette in each chapter that help readers understand the issues under consideration
Includes appendices that provide students with hands-on tools to do marketing research, survey an organization's culture, and perform decision analyses

Written in a conversational manner, Leadership and the Art of Change is an engaging textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying management in a variety of programs including Business, Public Administration, Health Care Management, and Social Work. It will also be of interest to professional managers looking for a unique perspective on organizational change.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Assessment: Specifying Change
Culture: Constraining Change
Vision: Motivating Change
Plans: Mapping Change
Implementation: Producing Change
Follow-Through: Institutionalizing Change
Conclusion: Expanding the Analysis of Change Leadership
Appendix A: Assessing Customer Service Needs
Appendix B: The Organizational Culture Survey
Appendix C: Decision Techniques
About the Author
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	SAGE Publications
Auteur(s)	Lee Roy Beach
Parution	31/07/2005
Nb. de pages	180
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	275g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781412913829
ISBN13	978-1-4129-1382-9