A. Carol Rusaw

Transforming the Character of Public Organizations (eBook, PDF)

Techniques for Change Agents

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From her own experience in various agencies and organizations, Dr. Rusaw knows that to inspire change in any organization and particularly in the public sector, change agents must understand that change is primarily collective, nonrational, and nonlinear. People who seek to create change cannot stand apart from the problems, issues, and concerns raised by their constituents, but must merge themselves into the data-making, analysis, and diagnosis phases of consulting. The agent must, in other words, participate actively in creating change-and how the agent must do this, why, and the effects the agent can expect are the subjects of Dr. Rusaw's book. Few books discuss public sector change in the way Dr. Rusaw does here, and none incorporate the phenomenological perspective that she uses. Her book will appeal to practicing public administrators who seek real-life examples presented in conversational language. It will also be important for teachers and students in public administration, specifically in courses in organizational behavior, leadership, organization theory, human relations, and public personnel management. Not only can change agents help public employees serve the purposes set out for them more effectively and efficiently, but by service and other efforts they can also help reverse the downward trend that has characterized the public sector in recent years. Dr. Rusaw maintains that such change is made possible by personal transformation, certainly, but also by interpersonal transformations. By focusing on individual and group needs as keys to organizational change, change agents can facilitate what is most needed: not just localized alterations but widespread, holistic transformations. Her book looks at the role of healing-particularly, the inherent skills of listening, empathizing, and encouraging-and at the ways in which people can confront and solve problems in negotiated environments. She also sees that central to re-education and re-socialization is the quality of the change agent's inner person: how well the agent is able to understand the role of self in the change process. Her book provides ways in which agents can inspire others to change too. In other words, Dr. Rusaw sees organizational change as a process moving from the inside to the outside, and it is on this foundation that her unusual, thoughtful, and ultimately practical book is based.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781567509106
• Artikelnr.: 68529369

Autorenporträt

A. CAROL RUSAW is an Associate Extension Professor at the Institute of Public Service, University of Connecticut, and has over 15 years experience as an adult educator and change agent in government. She provides management training and organizational consulting to state and local governments and teaches organizational behavior and management, leadership, and organizational theory in the Master's of Public Affairs program at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Getting Grounded in Organizational Transformation Leading Public Sector
Organizations from the Inside Out A Holistic View of Organization Change
Techniques for Collecting and Analyzing Data Building Trust and Preparing
for Change Implementation and Evaluation Guidelines The Art of Change
Agentry Using Self as a Change Instrument Mediation Roles of Public
Organizational Change Agents Fostering Perspective Change for Empowerment:
A Skills-Based Approach When They Don't Want to Change Empathy and
Encouragement Confronting Change with Courage and Compassion Hope as the
Imperative for Transformation Change through Creative Involvement The Art
of Cooperation: A Case of Management Union Joint Problem Solving Creating
Community in Government Holistic Learning: Integrating Individual and
Organizational Change Wholeness in Organizational Transformation Change as
the Ethics of Concern Cultivating Integrity in Change