Organizational Change and Strategy An Interlevel Dynamics Approach [Paperback]

Organizations change, usually driven by strategies, yet strategic management and organizational change are generally understood as separate domains in the business world. This book integrates the behavioural dynamics of learning, change and strategy at and across individual, team, interdepartmental, group and organizational levels.

This new edition emphasizes what can be done in organizations to enable strategy to be effective and to help organizations to change and learn. Central to the book is a reflexive engagement approach through inviting the readers to apply concepts to their own organizational situations and via reflective exercises. The authors also offer cases from a wide range of organizations, from universities to steel and digital businesses.

This practical book addresses managers, consultants, students and researchers and provides specific orientation to assist each readership group to learn from its own perspective.

Preface  Part I Setting up: Reflexive Engagement, Levels, and Interlevels  1. An Invitation to Reflexive Engagement  2. Templates and Context for Reflexive Engagement  3. Organizational Levels: Theory and practice  4. Interlevel Dynamics  Part II Interlevel Learning and Changing  5. The Process of Learning and Changing  6. The Interlevel Dynamics of Organizational Changing  7. Phases and Levels of Organizational Learning and Changing  Part III The Strategizing Process through Interlevel Change  8. Introducing Strategy and the Five Strategic Foci  9. Framing the Corporate Picture  10. Naming the Corporate Words  11. Determining Corporate Alternatives by Analyzing  12. Choosing and Implementing Corporate Actions  13. Evaluating Corporate Actions  Part IV Integrating and Applying&nbslse