Summaries of Organizational Change - Senior & Swailes

Booksummaries to be used with the 5th edition of Organizational Change

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Content Prints of summaries with Organizational Change

 Booksummary: list of contents for the printed summaries

• The printed booksummary contains the following chapters:
  • What is the definition of an organization? And what is the influence of its environment? - Chapter 1
  • What is the nature of organizational change? - Chapter 2
  • In what way is an organization structured? - Chapter 3
  • How to change an organizational culture? - Chapter 4
  • What is the influence of power and politic conflicts on change? - Chapter 5
  • What is the link between leadership and change? - Chapter 6
  • What is the meaning of hard systems models of change? - Chapter 7
  • What is the meaning of soft systems models of change? - Chapter 8
  • What are the future directions and challenges? - Chapter 9

Related summaries & other materials with Organizational Change

 Alternatives: booksummaries & related summaries

• Explanation of Human Resource Management aimed at students: Work in the 21st century: An introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology - Landy & Conte
• More accessible book about the basics: Organisational Behaviour - Sinding & Waldstrom
• Detailed explanation of cross cultural management: Cross-Cultural Management - Peterson & Thomas

 Knowledge & Study pages: summaries per field of study

• More (Dutch) summaries regarding HRM can be found here: Human Resource Management (HRM) - Kennis & Studiegebied

ExamTickets with Organizational Change

 ExamTickets: Tips & Tricks with studying the book

• There are two types of subsystems in an organization: 1) formal and 2) informal. Formal subsystems are the strategy, goals, structure, operations, technology etc. Remember this as something which is visible. An informal subsystem is for example the culture or politics. Remember this as a hidden element in the organization which is not directly observable.
• Ackoff (1993) identifies three kind of things that can be done about problems: SOLVE
  1) Resolve, 2) Solved and 3) Dissolved.
• Argyris (1964) pointed to the difference between two kinds of learning: single-loop learning and double-loop learning. Single-loop learning means that there is a situation in which an objective goal is defined, and a person works out the most favoured way of reaching the goal. Double-loop learning means that questions are asked not only about the means by which goals can be achieved, but also the ends, that is, the goals themselves. To remember: double-loop learning can be seen as ‘double learning’ also named relearning.

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