The management of change and conflict: Selected readings (Penguin education) Book

This volume of Readings is addressed to the management of change in organizations,based on the recognition of the interdependence of planned change and conflict. Part 1 provides an awareness and understanding of today's major social,political and cultural changes that require adaptation on the part of the organization. Part 2 is devoted to the "images" and models of organization wich are relevant to the management of change,including Terreberry's concept of the organization as an open system wich interaction with its environment becomes the critical factor. The key issues and concepts in organizational change and innovation are discussed in part 3. The articles in part 4 examine the different diagnoses from wich strategies for change develop. Part 5 is devoted to specific issues in the management of conflict(Morton Deutsch's seminar analysis of productive versus destructive conflict appears here). The management of conflict "in practice" is related to effective change in the last part of the book.Read More