Managing Organizational Change in Public Services

International Issues, Challenges and Cases
Herausgeber: Todnem, Rune; Macleod, Calum

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part of the "Understanding Organizational Change" series, this book focuses on the organizational dimension of change management in public services. It identifies and analyzes significant issues regarding the development, implementation and evaluation of public service change initiatives.

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This edited collection focuses on the organizational dimensions of change management, identifying and analyzing the development, implementation and evaluation of public service change initiatives. Combining theory and practice, it boasts case studies from around the world, as well as comparative analysis across a range of public service sectors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415467582
• ISBN-10: 0415467586
• Artikelnr.: 25685159

Autorenporträt

Rune Todnem By is a Lecturer at the School of Business, Enterprise and Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. He is the editor of the Journal of Change Management and founder of the International Change and Improvement Leadership Network. Calum Macleod is Senior Research Fellow within UHI Policyweb, the University of the Highlands and Islands Research Institute for Remote and Rural Regions, based in Inverness, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Context 1. An Overview of Managing Organizational Change in Public
Services Part II: Leadership, Management and Strategies for Organizational
Change in Public Services 2. Contextual Leadership and Change in the Public
Sector 3. Managing Public Sector Organizations in Environmental Turbulence
4. The Ideological Use of New Public Management Concepts during
Organizational Change Initiatives 5. Change from the Middle? Exploring
Middle Manager Strategic and Sensemaking Agency in Public Services 6. A
Convergence Analysis of Strategic Change: The National Trust Case 7.
Organizational Change in the Public Sector: The Case for Planned Change
Part III: Implementing and Evaluating Public Services Change Initiatives 8.
Public Sector Compensation: The Management of Change 9. Delayed Due to
Heavy Turbulence:An Analysis of Power, Politics and Ultimately, the
Abortion of a Major Organizational Change Initiative 10. For Show or For
Real? Organization Development in the Public Sector 11. Strategic Responses
to the Quality Reform:A Comparative Study of Change in Norwegian Higher
Education 12. Changing Organizational Values and Actions in Public
Services:A Longitudinal Empirical Analysis Part IV: Conclusions 13.
Organizational Change Management in Public Services: Key Findings and
Emerging Themes