Preparing for High Impact Organizational Change

Experiential Learning and Practice

Elgar Guides to Teaching

Edited by Gavin M. Schwarz, Professor, Management, University of New South Wales, Australia, Anthony F. Buono, Professor, Management and Sociology and Susan M. Adams, Professor, Management, Bentley University, US

Preparing for High Impact Change: Experiential Learning and Practice provides an overview of change processes for teaching, facilitating, and coping with change. Tested high-impact exercises in the book will prepare change leaders at all organizational levels to deal with the myriad of challenges inherent in the process of organizational change. This book is a resource for consultants, educators, students and practitioners in corporate training and development roles.

‘The field of organization development and change has been needing a book like this one for a long time, that is, having at your fingertips a practical array of hands-on exercises and interventions that clearly facilitate the hard work of changing organizations. Grounded in the fundamentals of organization change and development concepts and their applications, this book is indispensable for those responsible for organization change and development.’
– W. Warner Burke, Columbia University, US