Managing Organizational Change

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Section: Week 1

Reading 1: Breaking the Code of Change, Introduction: Resolving Theory E and O

Reading 2: Kotter, "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail."

Case 1: Scott Paper

Case 2: Champion Paper

Section: Week 2

Reading 1: BCC, Section 1: Purpose of Change, chs 1-2

Case 1: Asda, sections: A, A1, B

Section: Week 3

Reading 1: Age of Heretics - Intro, Ch. 1: Monastics, 2: Pelagians, & 3: Reformers and Resistance

Case 1: Merrill Lynch Case

Section: Week 4

Reading 1: Readings on Chiquita

Reading 2: AoH, Ch. 4: Protesters. Stakeholder theory. Eastman Kodak. Politics, race and outside pressure. Stockholder protest and Nader/GM. Protest skills bleed into social movements (change); Ch. 5: Mystics; & Ch. 6: Lovers of Faith and reason

Reading 3: Leavitt, "Hot Groups" article

Reading 4: Bonabeau, Predicting the Unpredictable

Section: Week 5

Reading 1: AoH - Ch. 7: Parzival's Dilemma, 8: Millenarians, & 9: The Rapids

Reading 2: Pascale & Sternon, Your Company's Secret Change Agents

Reading 3: Green Building Articles

Reading 4: Interface Readings

Reading 5: Urstadt, Imagine There's No Oil

Section: Week 6

Reading 1: Weick & Quinn, Organizational change and Development

Reading 2: Tushman & O'Reilly, Ambidextrous Organizations: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change

Reading 3: Pettigrew & Fenton, "Coopers and Lyband" from The Innovating Organization

Reading 4: Castells, Selections from "The Network Society"

Reading 5: Powell, The Capitalist Firm in the 21st Century

Reading 6: Bennis & Thomas, How Business Schools Lost Their Way

Section: Week 7

Reading 1: BCC, Section 2: Leadership of change, Chs 4, 5, & 6

Reading 2: Neuman, Why people don't participate in organizational change

Case 1: Seagat Technology

Section: Week 8

Reading 1: BCC, Section 4: Planning of Change, Chs 10, 11, &12

Reading 2: Senge, The Fifth Discipline

Reading 3: Cross & Lietdka, Practical Guide to Social Networks

Reading 4: Watts, Adaptation and Recovery Watts

 

Section: Week 9

Reading 1: BCC, Section 3: Focus of change - Formal Systems or Culture?, Chs 7, 8, & 9

Reading 2: Huston & Sakkab, Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation

Reading 3: Argyris, Teaching Smart People to Learn

Reading 4: Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership, select chapters

Case 1: Zingerman's

Section: Week 10

Reading 1: BCC, Section 5: Motivations for Change, Chs 13, 14, & 15

Reading 2: Cascio, Strategies for Responsible Restructuring

Reading 3: Pfeffer & Veiga, Put the People First for Organizational Success

Reading 4: Kleiner, Are you with the In Crowd?

Reading 5: Abrahamson, Change without pain

Section: Week 11

Reading 1: BCC, Section 6: Consultants' Role, Chs 16, 17, 18

Reading 2: BCC, Ch. 22: Observations and Critique

Reading 3: Articles on Change Management

Reading 4: Nohria & Eccles, Putting Change in Perspective

Section: Week 12

Reading 1: Quinn, Be The Bridge, pp 1-95

Reading 2: Pfeffer & Sutton, How to Practice Evidence-Based Management

Section: Week 13

Reading 1: Quinn, Be The Bridge, select chapters

Reading 2: Argyris, Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not, select chapters