Overview

The rapidly increasing rate of world change demands not just incremental change that organizations have used in the past, but fast, radical alterations of their strategy, culture, structure, and processes. Nothing less than transformation will do, says Dr. Oden—a complex, continuing effort that may be closer to revolution than evolution. Oden lays it out in his customarily clear, programmatic way. He covers actions that must precede the initiation of a transformation; guidance on how to perform the technical, social, and behavioral tasks, and the actions required to wrap up and integrate everything into a complete, workably transformed organization. His book provides a clear goal for the transformation, an excellent description of transformational leadership, and a simple, powerful model of the process. The result is essential reading for upper management in private and public sector organizations and for their colleagues in the academic community. Part I covers the preparatory actions that organizations should take before initiating a transformation, without which the effort is doomed to failure, says Dr. Oden. In Part II he covers the technical or engineering aspects of the transformation. First he develops a process map of the organization as the basis for process improvement; then he diagnoses the existing and future organization to determine how processes should be improved. In Part III he looks at the various organizational change methods that are available, conducts a broad design of the total organization, and then designs the human resource support processes for the transformed organization. Finally, in Part IV, Dr. Oden shows how to incorporate the redesigned processes into the existing system—the most difficult part of the transformation—and ends by showing how better integration can be achieved to provide better overall transformational results.

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Author:   Howard W. Oden
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.745kg
ISBN:  

9781567202267

ISBN 10:   1567202268
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   30 November 1999
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction Introducing the Transformation Process Initiating Transformation Transformational Leadership Strategic Planning for Transformation Transforming the Organizational Culture Organizing and Planning for Transformation Technically Redesigning the Organization Introduction to Technical Redesign Broad Technical Redesign of the Enterprise Detailed Technical Redesign of Work Processes Information Redesign of Processes Socially Redesigning the Organization Introduction to Social Redesign Broad Social Redesign of the Organization Detailed Social Redesign of the Organization Redesigning Human Resource Processes Completing the Transformation Evaluating and Incorporating Redesigned Systems Integrating the Transformation

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.,. offers a clear goal for transformation, an excellent description of transformation leadership, and a model of the change process....Highly recommended. -Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder

Author Information

HOWARD W. ODEN was a consultant and Associate Professor of Management, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, specializing in entrepreneurship, innovation, and the management of organizational change. He published more than 40 technical papers and four books, including Managing Corporate Culture, Innovation, and Intrapreneurship (Quorum, 1997).

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