Breaking the code of change / edited by Michael Beer, Nitin Nohria.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beer, Michael.

Nohria, Nitin, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Congresses.

Organizational change.

Leadership--Congresses.

Leadership.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2000]

Summary:

In"Breaking the Code of Change", editors Beer and Nohria provide a crucial starting point on the journey toward unlocking our understanding of organizational change. The book is based on a dynamic debate attended by the leading lights in the field-including scholars, consultants, and CEOs who have led successful transformations--and presents a series of articles, written by these experts, that collectively address the question: How can change be managed effectively?

Contents:

Introduction: Resolving the Tension between Theories E and O of Change / Michael Beer, Nitin Nobria 1

Section I Purpose of Change: Economic Value or Organizational Capability? 35

1. Value Maximization and the Corporate Objective Function / Michael C. Jensen 37

2. The Puzzles and Paradoxes of How Living Companies Create Wealth: Why Single-Valued Objective Functions Are Not Quite Enough / Peter M. Senge 59

3. The Purpose of Change, A Commentary on Jensen and Senge / Joseph L. Bower 83

Section II Leadership of Change: Directed from the Top or High-Involvement and Participative? 97

4. Effective Change Begins at the Top / Jay A. Conger 99

5. Leadership of Change / Warren Bennis 113

6. Embracing Paradox: Top-Down versus Participative Management of Organizational Change, A Commentary on Conger and Bennis / Dexter Dunphy 123

Section III Focus of Change: Formal Structure and Systems or Culture? 137

7. The Role of Formal Structures and Processes / Jay R. Galbraith 139

8. Changing Structure Is Not Enough: The Moral Meaning of Organizational Design / Larry Hirschhorn 161

9. Initiating Change: The Anatomy of Structure as a Starting Point, A Commentary on Galbraith and Hirschhorn / Allan R. Cohen 177

Section IV Planning of Change: Planned or Emergent? 193

10. Rebuilding Behavioral Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal / Sumantra Ghoshal, Christopher A. Bartlett 195

11. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations / Karl E. Weick 223

12. Linking Change Processes to Outcomes, A Commentary on Ghoshal, Bartlett, and Weick / Andrew M. Pettigrew 243

Section V Motivation for Change: Do Financial Incentives Lead, or Do They Lag and Support? 267

13. Compensation, Incentives, and Organizational Change: Ideas and Evidence from Theory and Practice / Karen Hopper Wruck 269

14. Compensation: A Troublesome Lead System in Organizational Change / Gerald E. Ledford Jr., Robert L. Heneman 307

15. Pay System Change: Lag, Lead, or Both? A Commentary on Wruck, Ledford, and Heneman / Edward E. Lawler III 323

Section VI Consultants' Role in Change: Large and Knowledge-Driven or Small and Process-Driven? 337

16. Human Performance That Increases Business Performance: The Growth of Change Management and Its Role in Creating New Forms of Business Value / Terry Neill, Craig Mindrum 339

17. Rapid-Cycle Successes versus the Titanics: Ensuring That Consulting Produces Benefits / Robert H. Schaffer 361

18. Accelerated Organizational Transformation: Balancing Scope and Involvement, A Commentary on Neill, Mindrum, and Schaffer / Robert H. Miles 381

Section VII Research on Change: Normal Science or Action Science? 391

19. Professional Science for a Professional School: Action Science and Normal Science / Andrew H. Van de Ven 393

20. The Relevance of Actionable Knowledge for Breaking the Code / Chris Argyris 415

21. Research That Will Break the Code of Change: The Role of Useful Normal Science and Usable Action Science, A Commentary on Van de Ven and Argyris / Michael Beer 429

Ending and Beginning 447

22. Breaking the Code of Change: Observations and Critique / Roger Martin 449.

Notes:

Papers from a Summer 1998 conference organized by the editors and held at the Harvard Business School.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1578513316

OCLC:

43540101