Table of Contents

Preface The Change Management Model Appreciating Change: Industry Analysis Appreciating Change: Mental and Business Models Mobilising Support Executing Change Building Change Capability Leadership and Change Index

About the Author

S Ramnarayan, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Business at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. A PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Management Training Centre, Pune, India, for about 5 years and later a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, for about 13 years. He has also been a visiting faculty at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Guest Professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He has worked in different sectors on a variety of assignments in the areas of organization development, change, and leadership. He has carried out assignments funded by different international agencies, such as US Office of Personnel Management, Ford Foundation, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, Department for International Development, and German Science Foundation. Apart from research papers, monographs, and case studies, Ram has co-authored books such as Changing Tracks: Reinventing the Spirit of Indian Railways, Change Management: Altering Mindsets in a Global Context, and Managing Organizational Change, and has co-edited books such as Life After 360 Degree Feedback, Strategic Management of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries, Organization Development Interventions and Strategies, and Managerial Dilemmas: Cases in Organizational Behaviour.

Reviews

The book contained long illustrations of successful Indian organizations.... This is one of the books on the subject, with a neat and well-integrated framework, packing rich material in a small space. The book reflects the authors' deep scholarship and long experience in managing and facilitating change. -- Journal of Health Management
The front cover, creatively and colourfully designed with landscape title positioning, seemed to hint towards a fresh 'CHaNGE.' Perhaps a desirable newness that I could, as a reader, expect to find in the pages ahead as well. My expectations were not belied. While the Foreword by P Chidambaram...imparts a credible appeal to this book, the Preface by the authors could be stimulating to a reader interested in excellence in/of India and Indian organizations....Nilakant and Ramnarayan, in this book, adopt an interesting, flowing, and engaging storyline, filled with useful conceptualizations and application tips for any reader interested in appreciating change, learning about change management, and wanting to bring about desirable changes in her/his organizational contexts. -- Vikalpa

The book is academic in nature to the extent that it provides a model and research to support the assertions of the authors. There is a good review of literature and organizational data to support the model and its postulates, Students researching the topic would be delighted to find ample and accurate referencing and amzing lindages of data to concepts, Teachers would find that the models proposed have depth of thought and philosoply implicitly placed in the contents of the book.

-- Consulting Ahead
The front cover, creatively and colourfully designed with landscape title positioning, seemed to hint towards a fresh 'CHANGE.'...While the Foreword by P Chidambaram...imparts a credible appeal to this book, the Preface by the authors could be stimulating to a reader interested in excellence in/of India and Indian organizations....Nilakant and Ramnarayan, in this book, adopt an interesting, flowing, and engaging storyline, filled with useful conceptualizations and application tips for any reader interested in appreciating change, learning about change management, and wanting to bring about desirable changes in her/his organizational contexts.

-- Vikalpa