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This book provides a critical analysis of contemporary theories and models for understanding change. It demystifies some of the new approaches which have emerged internationally, and develops a processual framework. New empirical material is used to highlight some of the major contemporary issues, which surround the introduction of new production and service concepts, such as, Just-in-Time production techniques, new technology, cellular manufacture and Total Quality Management. The majority of books available in the area of change management tend to be either in the form of practitioner-oriented cookbooks , couched in the how to do it style, or in a more focused form which emphasises particular aspects of certain types of change. The heavy reliance on anecdotes and metaphors in the formulation of neat prescriptive solutions to the problems of managing transitions has tended to cloud the process of organizational adaptation to rapidly changing global demands.Product Identifiers
PublisherSAGE Publications LTD
ISBN-139781853962370
eBay Product ID (ePID)88414916
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Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameOrganizational Change
LanguageEnglish
SubjectManagement
Publication Year1994
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaOrganizational Sociology
AuthorPatrick Dawson
SeriesHuman Resource Management Series
FormatPaperback
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPatrick Dawson