This best-selling text shows how effective organization change is grounded in sound knowledge about human behavior in the workplace. Author W. Warner Burke reviews various models and cases to demonstrate how to diagnose change issues in organizations. The book integrates theory and research with application for insight into all aspects of organization change.

Key Features

- Discusses a range of theories to help understand organizations and change: Readers learn about open-system theory, Capra’s ideas about the life sciences, chaos theory, and Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.
- Examines both evolutionary and revolutionary organization change, as well as the nature of change: The text discusses different types of change and also shows that organization change is initiated by changing behavior. 
- Illustrates the usefulness of models: Models, including the Burke–Litwin model, help simplify and focus the organizational change effort.