Personnel specialists often bear the brunt of organisational change. Whether through the painful experiences of managing a redundancy, or as company representatives negotiating the introduction of new technology with trade unions, the shock waves of organisational change permeate most aspects of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe an intervention aimed at supporting the formation of a distinctive new culture in a post‐merger context. The work is informed by social constructionist thinking, complexity theory and draws on a semiotic approach to the understanding of...

Changing organizations is not an easy business. At least, changing them in a way which is both intended and which entails a minimum of unnecessary conflict, disruption and general trauma has proved to be especially difficult. Attempts to understand the reasons for these difficulties and to...