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Summary
Summary
What are the root causes of the increasingly rapid rate of change in the business environment? What patterns exist in the ways environmental change leads to organizational change? Confronted with a state of continuously accelerating change, what should managers and organizational scientists do? Organizational Change and Redesign addresses these questions to provide a clear and comprehensive understanding of the relationships among environmental changes, organizational redesign, and performance. George Huber, William Glick, and some of the most respected authorities working in the field of organizational change provide specific new ideas and insights for improving managerial performance. This work draws on multi-year studies of dozens of organizations and on hundreds of interviews with top managers. It includes chapters formed as practical tutorials on how to think about and manage organizational change and redesign. A thoughtful analysis of fundamental issues and questions, Organizational Change and Redesign is an essential tool for business scholars, students, and practicing managers in the middle and upper levels of organizations.
Author Notes
George P. Huber and William H. Glick are both at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Edited by experienced academic researchers who recruited other academic experts in the field of business organization as contributors, this anthology displays a determined effort to examine and explain organizational change. Given the Herculean task, the book does quite well. Included are chapters on downsizing and redesign, hyperturbulence, communication choice in strategic decisions, executive teams, predicting change, managing innovation, global alliances, designing dynamic organizations, and organizational redesign. All the chapters are solid contributions, while several are outstanding. To mention just one, the downsizing paper is one of the most comprehensive in the organizational literature; it extensively reviews prior research and then presents original data on 30 firms that had downsized. Readers learn, for instance, that half the firms simply eliminated jobs without considering functions, eliminating layers, redesigning jobs, or improving procedures either before or shortly after paring. There is much to praise in this anthology. Recommended for sociology or management graduate students and teachers in organization theory. C. Tausky; University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Table of Contents
| Contributors |
| 1 Sources and Forms of Organizational Change |
| Part 1 The Challenge of Change |
| 2 Downsizing and Redesigning OrganizationsKim S. Cameron and Sarah J. Freeman and Aneil K. Mishra |
| 3 Organizations Reacting to HyperturbulenceAlan D. Meyer and James B. Goes and Geoffrey R. Brooks |
| 4 Implications of Top Managers' Communication Choices for Strategic DecisionsRichard L. Daft and Kenneth R. Bettenhausen and Beverly B. Tyler |
| 5 Effects of Executive Team Demography on Organizational ChangeCharles A. O'Reilly III, et al. |
| 6 The Impact of Upper-Echelon Diversity on Organizational PerformanceWilliam H. Glick and C. Chet Miller and George P. Huber |
| 7 Understanding and Predicting Organizational ChangeGeorge P. Huber, et al. |
| Part 2 Redesigning Organizations |
| 8 Managing the Process of Organizational InnovationAndrew H. Van de Ven |
| 9 Designing Global Strategic Alliances: Integrating Cultural and Economic FactorsJohn W. Slocum, Jr. and David Lei |
| 10 (Re)Designing Dynamic OrganizationsPeter R. Monge |
| 11 Organizational Redesign As ImprovisationKarl E. Weick |
| Part 3 Conclusion |
| 12 What Was Learned About Organizational Change and Redesign |
| Epilogue Designing Postindustrial Organizations: Combining Theory and PracticeArie Y. Levin and Carroll U. Stephens |
| Appendix Studying Changes in Organizational Design and Effectiveness: Retrospective Even Histories and Periodic AssessmentsWilliam H. Glick, et al. |
| Name Index |
| Subject Index |
