Integrated Strategic Change or Organizational Communication

Integrated Strategic Change: How Organizational Development Builds Competitive Advantage

Author: Christopher G Worley

In Integrated Strategic Change, Chris Worley, David Hitchin, and Walter Ross describe a process model of change that leads organizations through strategic analysis, strategy making, and the development and implementation of a strategic change plan. By integrating the process orientation of OD with the content orientation of strategy, an organizational capability is produced that helps organizations understand when and how to make fundamental strategic change. The book is written for human resource executives, strategic planners, and line managers interested in improving the quality of strategic implementation. It can also serve as a supplemental text for business strategy courses that wish to emphasize process approaches to strategy or strategic change.

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Integrating the process orientation of Organizational Development with the content orientation of strategy, the authors present a model of change and show how organizations can learn when and how to make fundamental strategic changes. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Organization Development, Strategic Change, and Industrial Competitiveness	1
2	The Integrated Strategic Change Model	12
3	Performing A Strategic Analysis: The VIP Process	26
4	Strategic Analysis: Diagnosing Strategic Orientation	44
5	The Process of Strategy Making: Visioning and Choice	66
6	Strategy Making: Designing A Strategic Orientation	85
7	Developing the Strategic Change Plan	106
8	Implementing the Strategic Change Plan	124
9	ISC As A Competitive Advantage	137
	References	155

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Organizational Communication: Theory and Behavior

Author: Peggy Yunas Byers

Here is a new edited book that provides in-depth coverage of human communication in modern organizations. The exploration of topics such as chaos theory, gender, diversity, conflict, culture, ethics, technology, consulting and creativity is designed to present readers with both theoretical and practical information about how people communicate within organizations. This contributed volume of chapters contains the work of well-known authors: Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Julie M. Billingsley, Alberto Gonzalez, Susan A. Hellweg, Valerie Manusov, David R. Neumann, Raymond M. O'Connor, Jr., John Parrish-Sprowl, Ann L. Plamondon, Dale L. Shannon, Timothy Neal Thompson, Phillip K. Tompkins, Angela Trethewey, Ethel M. Wilcox, James R. Wilcox, Jennifer Willis, and Cory Young.Business Owners, Corporate Trainers, and Human Resources Professionals.