Introduction: The Emergence of Organizational Change
Part1: Planned Change and Organization Development Introduction
1. Kurt Lewin and the Origins of OD
2. Kurt Lewin’s Vision of Organizational and Social Change: The Interdependence of Theory, Research and Action/Practice
3. Organization Development and Action Research: Then and Now
4. The Early Cold War Politics of Action Research and Group Dynamics
5. Organization Development and International Contexts: Values, Controversies and Challenges
6. Appreciative Inquiry: Theory and Critique
7. Images of Organization Development: The Role of Metaphor in Processes of Change
Part2: Newer Approaches to Change Introduction
8. The Contribution of the Processual Approach to the Theory and Practice of Organizational Change
9. Understanding the Emergent Approach to Change
10. Complexity Ethics
11. Narratives of Coherence: The Role of Affordances and Homologies
12. Storytelling in Systemicity and Emergence: A Third Order Cybernetic
Part3: Perspectives on Change Introduction
13. A Dramaturgical Approach to the Practice of Managing Change
14. Designing for Change with Critical Scenario Method
15. Organizations Unbound: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Organizational Restructuring
16. Contemporary Realism and Organizational Change
17. Organization Theory, Power and Changing Institutions
18. Organizational Change and Dialectic Processes
19. Critical Theories of Organizational Change
Part4: Change in Practice Introduction
20. Leadership and Change: Whatever Happened to Ethics?
21. Management Fads and Fashions
22. Organizational Entrapment
23. Power and Discourse in Organizational Change: The Case of Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
24. Cultural Change
25. Changing Attitudes to Employee Attitudes to Change: From Resistance to Ambivalence and Ambiguity
26. Narrating Organizational Change
27. Governance and Organizational Change
Part5: Key Issues Introduction
28. The Ambiguity Paradox in Cultural Change
29. Organizational Change as Imperialism
30. OD Discourse and Domination
31. Practices of Stakeholder Engagement and Identity Dynamics
32. Reflections on Polyphonic Organization
33. Helping Diversity Matter: Fostering Liminal Spaces for Authentic Interaction in the Face of Change
34. Making Sense of Gender and Organizational Change: A Feminist Review of Certain Articles
35. The Moral of the Story: Ethics, Narrative, and Organizational Change
Part6: The Future Introduction
36. Organization Change: The Aesthetic Dimension
37. Sustainability and Organizational Change
38. Rethinking the Change Project
39. The Promise of Re-enchantment: Organizational Change and the Spirituality at Work Movement
40. Social Materiality: A New Direction in Change Management and Action Research Postscript Change in a Changing World: Where Now?