Changing Organizational Culture

Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. This book encourages the development of a reflexive approach to organizational change, providing insights as to why it may be difficult to maintain momentum in change processes.

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at University of Bath, UK and Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden. Stefan Sveningsson is Professor of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.

1) Introduction 2) Organizational change 3) Organizational culture and change 4) The case-and how we studied it 5) A cultural change project I: background, objectives and design 6) A cultural change project II: implementation, reception and outcomes PART 3 Crucial issues in cultural change work 7) 'It is not so damn easy': lack of consistency and expressiveness in cultural change work 8) Disconnected work: cultural change efforts decoupled 9) Hyperculture 10) Working with culture vs culture working on change workers 11) Working with change 12) Lessons for cultural change actors and others Bibliography