We live in a time where organizational change has become the norm. Organizations are constantly undergoing major restructurings be it outsourcing, downsizing or major reorganizational changes, e.g., team or LEAN implementation. Stability has become the exception. Managing good and healthy change seems to be a prerequisite to secure the organization’s survival. Research has indicated that the way the change is implemented greatly influences the results of changes and that organizational change may have detrimental effects on employees’ working environment, health and well-being. The unique contribution of this Ebook is the healthy change perspective. This book is about how change can benefit the health of the organization and the individual employee, and it is hoped that it will be of interest to many readers.
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
