Pathfinder: Organizational Change

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos

SCOPE: In business change is often a necessary factor to insure growth and revitalize an organization. The decision to move forward is the responsibility of the leaders and management team who attempt to transform the organization in spite of the workers attempts to retain the status quo. There usually exists a tension between innovating new business and preserving old success. ( Peter Senge, The Dance of Change) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the materials available in the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with organizational change are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Organizational change
Corporate reorganizations United States
Organizational change United States 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF HD 57.7.H525 2001 The Encyclopedia of Leadership: A Practical Guide to Popular Leadership Theories and Techniques

REF HD58.7.H363 2000 Handbook of Organizational Culture & Climate 

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located on the second floor of the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS 

Ashkenas, Ron. The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

Cappelli, Peter. Change at Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Citrin, James M. Zoom: How 12 Exceptional Companies are Navigating the Road to the Next Economy. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2002.

Daft, Richard L. Fusion Leadership: Unlocking the Subtle Forces that Change People and Organizations. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998.

Davis, Stanley M. Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Drucker, Peter Ferdinand. Managing in a Time of Great Change. New York: Truman Talley Books/Dutton, 1995.

Kotter, John P. Leading Change. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Meyerson, Debra. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Nolan, Richard L. Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001.

Ross, Gerald. Toppling the Pyramids: Redefining the Way Companies Are Run. New York: Times Books, 1994.

Senge, Peter. The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1999.

Wickens, Peter. The Ascendant Organisation: Combining Commitment and Control for Long-Term Sustainable Business Success. New York: St. Martins Press, 1995.

Some representative journals that the library subscribes to that focus on the topic of organizational change are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 

Academy of Management Executive
Leader to Leader
Organization Development Journal

VIDEOS 

BF 637.C4J642 1999 Who Moved My Cheese?

HD 58.8.T722x 1997 Change or Transformation

Updated 02/08/2007