Changing Organizational Culture
The Change Agent's Guidebook
(Sprache: Englisch)
To alter an organization s culture, change agents must first understand its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. Marc Schabracq s innovative new book is based on a fresh way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures.
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To alter an organization s culture, change agents must first understand its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. Marc Schabracq s innovative new book is based on a fresh way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures.
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Changing Organizational Culture enables those facilitating change to gain a broader understanding of the challenges faced when undertaking this task. It offers a range of practical techniques, pointers and exercises to help change agents develop their thinking and intuition, as well as their perception of change.In order to alter an organization's culture, the change agent must first understand that culture; its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. This innovative guidebook is based on a new way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. It focuses on the greatest challenge to cultural change - transforming the attitudes and assumptions of people - and offers three approaches which collectively assist the change process:
* changing the organizational goals through the leader;
* improving the effectiveness of the organization through the organizational members themselves;
* extending and enriching the assumptions underlying the culture through dialogue-based group sessions.
Changing Organizational Culture is a must-have resource for organizational psychologists and change agents. It is also of interest to senior managers and business/ management students.
Online Resources
The scales, checklists and exercises are available online free to purchasers fo the print version.
Visit the website www.wiley.com/go/culture to find out how to access and download this material.
Changing Organizational Culture enables those facilitating change to gain a broader understanding of the challenges faced when undertaking this task. It offers a range of practical techniques, pointers and exercises to help change agents develop their thinking and intuition, as well as their perception of change.
In order to alter an organization's culture, the change agent must first understand that culture; its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. This innovative guidebook is based on a new way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. It focuses on the greatest challenge to cultural change - transforming the attitudes and assumptions of people - and offers three approaches which collectively assist the change process:
- changing the organizational goals through the leader;
- improving the effectiveness of the organization through the organizational members themselves;
- extending and enriching the assumptions underlying the culture through dialogue-based group sessions.
Changing Organizational Culture is a must-have resource for organizational psychologists and change agents. It is also of interest to senior managers and business/ management students.
Online Resources
The scales, checklists and exercises are available online free to purchasers fo the print version.
Visit the website www.wiley.com/go/culture to find out how to access and download this material.
In order to alter an organization's culture, the change agent must first understand that culture; its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. This innovative guidebook is based on a new way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. It focuses on the greatest challenge to cultural change - transforming the attitudes and assumptions of people - and offers three approaches which collectively assist the change process:
- changing the organizational goals through the leader;
- improving the effectiveness of the organization through the organizational members themselves;
- extending and enriching the assumptions underlying the culture through dialogue-based group sessions.
Changing Organizational Culture is a must-have resource for organizational psychologists and change agents. It is also of interest to senior managers and business/ management students.
Online Resources
The scales, checklists and exercises are available online free to purchasers fo the print version.
Visit the website www.wiley.com/go/culture to find out how to access and download this material.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Changing Organizational Culture “
- About the Author- Introduction
Part I: Changing organizational culture
Chapter 1. Organizational culture
Chapter 2. Assessing the organization and cultural change
Chapter 3. Everyday reality, attitude and leadership
Chapter 4. Mapping and taking away ineffectiveness
Chapter 5. Dialogue
Part II: techniques, personal issue and exercises
Chapter 6. Techniques and tools
Chapter 7. Personal issues
Chapter 8. Exercises
Part III: Addenda
Addendum 1: Some meanings of the non-verbal behavioral elements in Chapter 8
Addendum 2. Some connotations of the words in the You-We-It exercise in Chapter 8
Addendum 3. Examples of unproductive assumptions (Chapter 8, Walk 2)
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Marc J. Schabracq
Dr Marc J. Schabracq (1949, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; schabracq@humanfactor.nl) is a work and health psychologist. As an independent organizational consultant, March Schabracq has acquired much experience with the human aspect of organizations (organizational culture change, leadership, personal transitions, stress management and personal integrity) in a great number of profit and non-profit organizations. In addition, he has worked at the University van Amsterdam since 1973, and subsequently in clinical psychology, social psychology and - since 1987 0- work and organizational psychology. He has produced more than 20 scholarly and professional books about psychology, as well as more than 100 articles and book chapters. In addition, he has written three novels and a bundle of short stories.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marc J. Schabracq
- 2007, 1. Auflage, 264 Seiten, Maße: 24,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470014830
- ISBN-13: 9780470014837
Sprache:
Englisch
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