Organisational change: The messy reality
HRZone.co.uk member Chris Rodgers challenges the mainstream perspective of organisational change by taking a look at the messy reality of it and the illusion of management control. Stories abound of change efforts that have petered out, failed to deliver the expected benefits or disappointed those who were once their most […]
Take a solutions-focused approach to change management
Paul Z Jackson describes how a solutions-focused approach to change can help create a vision of the desired future, involve key players and make the process as painless as possible. As traditional approaches to change management – by top-down decision making and one-way communication – become less appropriate, a growing number of organisations are […]
Opinion: HR’s role in change management
It is unbelievable that anyone, who has been working anywhere in the last fifty years, has escaped a succession of organisation change interventions. The rapid growth of international competition, the impact of IT and the rise of demanding mass consumerism have all fed this beast; Stephen Walker of Motivation Matters offers his opinion. To see […]
News in Brief: Culture change biggest HR challenge
Catch up on the week in HR including the new HR challenge, age overrides skills in UK market, jobless count rises, government chastised over pensions and ex-offenders are source of new labour. W/C 13/3/06Culture change biggest HR challengeThe biggest HR challenge facing companies this year is implementing culture change. This is according to new research […]
Review: Mastering change
Title: Mastering change Editor: Unknown – Unbound review copyPublisher: BBC BooksISBN: Unknown – Unbound review copyPrice: £6.99Reviewer: Claudine McClean Mastering Change contains real life lessons from real business leaders. It doesn’t work as a manual, telling you how to identify the changes needed, nor how to implement or embed them. Instead it guides you through […]
Review: Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures
Title:Managing Change Across Corporate CulturesAuthors:Fons Trompenaars and Peter Prud’hommePublisher:CapstoneISBN:1-84112-578-4Price:£14.99Reviewed by:Sharon Cooper, HR Director EMEA, IPC Information Systems Trompenaars is one of the foremost writers in the field of cross-cultural management and his co-author in this book is Peter Prud’homme who has been published extensively on business culture. “Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures” is one of […]
Help to change career for social worker
I am an experienced social worker that has devised and run many training courses. I usually work with quite damaged young male adolescents and am currently running assertiveness skills courses for them. I chose to work with young males as they are the hardest client group to communicate with and i knew i would have […]
Government minister tells public sector workers to embrace change
Cabinet Office Minister Ian McCartney today urged public sector workers to embrace change in the drive to modernise public services. In a speech at the "Delivering modernised government – strategy into action" conference, Mr McCartney appealed to civil servants and public servants to continue taking the initiative and modernise government by coming up with workable […]
