Changing Organizational Culture ─ Cultural Change Work in Progress

How do people react to significant organizational change? Do we see ourselves as helping change to come about, or allowing change to happen around us? How can we adapt more easily to change?

Based around an illuminating extended case study, this important text uncovers the reality of organizational change. From planning and inception to project management and engagement, it explores the views and reactions of various stakeholders undergoing real-life change processes. This new edition draws on the latest theoretical developments, including ideas of power and storytelling, and reflects on an empirical study of organizational change which enriches the authors’ practical recommendations. As such, it helps us to understand how organizations can promote change without alienating the people needed to implement it.

This enhanced edition is vital reading for students, researchers and practitioners working in organizational studies, change management and HRM.

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.

Stefan Sveningsson is Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.