Table of Contents
Preface iContributors ii
Bibliography iv
Chapter 1: Lean and the Psychosocial Work Environment 1
Peter Hasle
Chapter 2: The Importance of Trust in Organizational Change 10
Ole H. Sørensen and Peter Hasle
Chapter 3: Organizational Change Competence 21
Gunhild Birgitte, Zeiner Ingstad and Live Bakke Finne
Chapter 4: Understanding the Emotional Experience of Organizational Change 33
Fay Giæver
Chapter 5: Conflict Management in Preventing Negative Effects of Change 41
Gunn Robstad Andersen
Chapter 6: The Role of Norms in Organizational Change Efforts 52
Tove Helland Hammer
Chapter 7: Leaders Embracing Change: Managing Healthy Change Processes 62
Per Øystein Saksvik and Sturle Danielsen Tvedt
Chapter 8: Resistance to Organizational Change: Individual Reactions to
Change on the Emotional, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Levels 70
Ingvild Berg Saksvik and Hilde Hetland
Chapter 9: Developing a Framework for the “Why” in Change Outcomes:
The Importance of Employees’ Appraisal of Changes 76
Karina Nielsen, Raymond Randall, Sten-Olof Brenner and Karen Albertsen
Chapter 10: The Importance of Healthy Organizational Change Processes 87
Sturle Danielsen Tvedt
Chapter 11: Studying Organizational Change from a Multilevel Perspective 92
Åslaug Rennesund
Subject Index 103