Based on considerable experience, looks at the relationship between change and power, the role of change structures, and examines the importance of change signals, symbols and culture including “culture generators”; suggests that there are only four basic questions which need to be examined,...

Examines the key variables which need to be understood and managed to achieve optimum growth out of change. Specifically, considers how to alter the dimension of each variable. Variables considered are the environment, continuity, size, phasing, frequency, duration, the initiator, the...

The first of two articles, discusses the problems of seeking to introduce organizational development interventions into a major Health Service organization. In particular, the paradox is that the leaders of major change issues are themselves caught up in the instability that the interventions...

Three consultants in ICL′s corporate HRD unit speak from their experience of self‐managed learning. They ask “Can self‐development provide people with sufficient confidence in their own future to engender a positive attitude to corporate change?” Three key points are illustrated with...

Discussions with five different organisations are reviewed to establish the skills necessary to manage change. It is argued that structural change has to be accompanied by a change of ethos. This has to be supported by changes in the behavioural repertoire of managers, for example the ability to...

Posits that while team development has become fashionable managers are often uncertain about its value to their business and what is required from the organization to support its introduction. Explores some key questions faced by managers and answers are supported by case studies and examples....

The study of complex adaptive systems which explains the constant flux of living systems is arousing much interest as a paradigm and model for studying organisational behaviour and associated disciplines. A new order of reality emerges as a result of the constant interaction and coevolution of...

Challenges the notion that leadership is about control by strong personalities. Draws on theories of organizational change to show the part leadership plays and how it needs to change to enable organizations to transform themselves to compete most effectively in the modern economy. In...