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"A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organiza
A downloadable (pdf format) article discussing a framework proposed for designing organization change initiatives in a way that enables stakeholders to perform parallel (though connected) streams of inquiry and design in both cultural and structural systems simultaneously. Methodologies for performing these inquiry streams are described.
"Cultural Aspects of Systemic Change"
Article in downloadable format (pdf) describing an underlying scientific basis of a systems approach to integrating cultural and structural learning. Author elaborates a way of understanding culture as a multi-layered pattern of actions, values, and beliefs.
Background and Theory for Large Scale Organization
A summary of many of the most widely used methods for managing organizational change with large groups.
Change Management: A Primer
A broad overview of change management - from definitions to the change process.
Inspiring Change
Case studies on functional reorganization, culture change, merging and relocating companies, organisational diagnosis and change design.
Leadership Is An Art
An ethical, means based, approach to organizational change. A view of organizational change from the prospective of an agent of change.
Organizational Change and Vested Interest
White paper examining the interrelationship between costs of delay, vested interests and costs of organizational change. Available in postscript and pdf formats.
Organizational Change: Managing the Human Side
White paper based on findings from APQC's 1997 organizational change consortium benchmarking study.
Organizational Theory - Determinants of Structure
Article focusing on why organizations have the structure that they do, and a discussion on horizontal differentiation, vertical differentiation, mechanisms of coordination and control, formalization, and centralization of power.
Overview of Organizational Analysis and Change
Reference information and articles on change management.
Role of Information Technology in Managing Organiz
This article sets forth the application of open systems theory for generating propositions regarding the management of organizational change and organizational interdependence by application of IT.
Teaching the Caterpillar to Fly
Ideas on Managing and Leading Change using Square Wheels illustrations.
The Best Ways to Survive Reengineering
Article published in Enterprise Reengineering that discusses the toll that reengineering takes upon an organization, with tips on survival.