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- Presents a useful guide to organisational development and change for business students without a human sciences background
- Demonstrates patterns of relationships and connections between organisational phenomena rather than focusing solely on components
- Offers contemporary insights from social constructionism, systems thinking, and complexity science to develop a learning infrastructure
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book focuses on human behavioural processes and describes them from an interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces readers to the main theories and approaches in the field of organisational development and change (ODC), and discusses their relevance and purpose with a clear focus on improving how readers perceive and handle change. The book is tailor-made for business students without any background in the humanities, helping them to conceptualise organisational development and change, and to practically organise interventions to increase organisational effectiveness. The book’s goal is to help future managers and consultants recognise and handle the ‘full situation’, which includes purposes, people and relationships. Furthermore, it elaborates on those theories and instruments that can deliver real benefits to real people working in real fuzzy and complex circumstances, and includes several practical cases focusing on the role of the interventionist.
Authors and Affiliations
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VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Antonie van Nistelrooij
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Embracing Organisational Development and Change
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach Based on Social Constructionism, Systems Thinking, and Complexity Science
Authors: Antonie van Nistelrooij
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51256-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51255-2Published: 03 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51258-3Published: 03 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51256-9Published: 02 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 328
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Sciences, general