Palmer, Ian,  1957-, <br/><br/>
Managing organizational change :  a multiple perspectives approach / 
Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, Gib Akin. 
 - Second edition / International edition. 
 - xii, 413 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : stories of change -- Images of managing change -- Why organizations change -- What changes in organizations -- Diagnosis for change -- Resistance to change -- Implementing change : organization development, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, and sense-making approaches -- Implementing change : change management, contingency, and processual approaches -- Linking vision and change -- Strategies for communicating change -- Skills for communicating change -- Sustaining change. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>007126373x (paperback) 9780071263733 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Organizational change.<br/>Organizational change--Management.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD58.8  / .P35 2009