The Changing Organization

The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems and cybernetic ''living system'' perspective Guo Yolles Fink and Iles offer a new agency paradigm designed to model diagnose and analyse complex real-world situations. Its capacity to anticipate patterns of behaviour provides useful means by which the origin of crises can be understood and resolutions reflected upon. Scholars and graduate students in fields as diverse as management politics anthropology and psychology will find numerous applications for this book when considering socio-political and organizational change and it offers an invaluable guide for consultants who may wish to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world situations.