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The Third Edition of this bestselling text continues to make clear how effective organization change is grounded in sound knowledge about human behaviour in the workplace. Author W. Warner Burke reviews various models and cases to demonstrate how to diagnose change issues in organizations. Greater emphasis is placed on planned, revolutionary change over the gradual, evolutionary change typically experienced by organizations. The book combines and integrates theory and research with application for insight into all aspects of organization change.
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Covering both theory and application, this work presents an overview of organizational change. Early chapters cover open-system and chaos theories, consideration of the work of Fritjof Capra and Ilya Prigogine, and Malcom Gladwell's theories regarding major changes arising when systems reach the "tipping point." Later chapters cover actual implementation, although theory is regularly mixed in. Burke (psychology and education, Teachers College, Columbia U.) states in the introduction that "The bulk of what was written for the first and second editions of this book remains the same in this third edition." This is perhaps too modest, as there is a new fourteen page chapter on organizational culture change, new sections on positive organization change and loosely coupled systems, and an additional case study. An instructor teaching site is available online. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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