The topic of change management presents professionals with many challenges. From HR and finance to IT and marketing, every function within organisations has to consider strategies for the effective management of change.
In Managing Change/Changing Managers, author Julian Randall presents a guide for students and managers new to the theory of change management. He argues that a challenge for such readers is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature, and believes that much of it makes the art of managing change appear simple and foolproof when it is not.
As such, the book presents a review of existing literature in the change management field and brings together an overarching perspective on the most influential writings in the area. Randall also presents his own critique of this material, and examines their implications upon the practice of change management.
One of the more interesting chapters deals with cultural change, and Randall examines the phenomenon of culture transformation, the role of HR in such change and presents the general principles for successful cultural change. The book will make for interesting reading for managers and postgraduates entering the field of change management.
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