Balancing Acts - A Human Systems Approach to Organizational Change (Hardcover)

Balancing Acts offers consultants and managers a simple, powerful way to think about change, and ascribes a four-phase iterative process for implementing change. Reviewing change initiatives from different types of organizations, Balancing Acts confronts the problems and pitfalls head-on that often arise during workplace transitions. Conklin explains why organizational change can be so difficult, and shows that by balancing a set of competing psychological and systemic challenges, interveners will increase their chance of success. Conklin shows that human groups function as complex systems, and that a change initiative is not a linear progression toward a predefined result. Instead, change is an iterative process that involves a search for feasible and useful solutions. The book's central argument is that while leading or supporting this search, consultants and leaders must balance four critical concerns: confrontation and compassion, participation and observation, assertion and inquiry, and planfulness and emergence.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	James Conklin
Dimensions:	234 x 150 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-4027-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Company secretary role & responsibilities Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Non-profitmaking organizations Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4875-4027-2
Barcode:	9781487540272

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