PDAS 401 Contemporary Organisation Theory - Organisations and change

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Articles in reference works

Dixson Library Reference

R658.409 E563 v.1
Frantz, David W. "Change management", in George R. Goethals, Georgia J Sorenson & James MacGregor Burns (eds), 2004, Encyclopedia of Leadership, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, pp. 154-157.

Individual electronic journal articles

Morgan, Gareth. 1992. Improving your flysight. (anticipating changes in the business environment), Business Quarterly, Autumn vol. 57 no. 2 pp. 39(2).

Oswick, Cliff et al. 2005. Looking forwards: discursive directions in organizational change, Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 383 - 390.
Findings: "The paper highlights a shift of emphases in organizational change due to environmental imperatives. In particular, it reveals a move from problem-centred, discrete interventions to a focus on continuous improvements. It also draws attention to the emerging significance of discourse-based approaches concerned with image, identity, organizational learning and knowledge management."

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