Changing Organizational Culture: The Change Agent's Guidebook

"Changing Organizational Culture" enables those facilitating change to gain a broader understanding of the challenges faced when undertaking this task. It offers a range of practical techniques, pointers and exercises to help change agents develop their thinking and intuition, as well as their perception of change.

In order to alter an organization's culture, the change agent must first understand that culture; its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. This innovative guidebook is based on a new way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. It focuses on the greatest challenge to cultural change - transforming the attitudes and assumptions of people - and offers three approaches which collectively assist the change process:

changing the organizational goals through the leader; improving the effectiveness of the organization through the organizational members themselves; extending and enriching the assumptions underlying the culture through dialogue-based group sessions.

"Changing Organizational Culture" is a must-have resource for organizational psychologists and change agents. It is also of interest to senior managers and business/ management students.

Online Resources

The scales, checklists and exercises are available online free to purchasers fo the print version.

Visit the website www.wiley.com/go/culture to find out how to access and download this material.

To alter an organization's culture, change agents must first understand its attitudes, beliefs and assumptions. Marc Schabracq's innovative new book is based on a fresh way of thinking that deals with both the functional and structural features of cultures. Focusing on the greatest barrier to organizational change - the attitudes and assumptions of people - it offers three approaches that collectively assist the change process: changing goals through the leader; improving effectiveness through the members; and enriching assumptions through group dialogue. The scales, checklists and exercises are available online. A priceless resource for consultants and change agents, "Changing Organizational Culture" is also valuable reading for senior managers and business students interested in the change process.