Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition

PART IV

Achieving Effective Organizations

Chapter 13 Managing Organizational Change

Chapter 14 Organizing for Learning

Chapter 15 Generating and Utilizing Trust

Chapter 16 Corporate Governance in New Organizational Forms

Introduction to Part IV – Achieving Effective Organizations

The chapters in Parts II and III were largely concerned with the structures and mechanisms that facilitate ongoing processes. These should permit, even encourage, a company to evolve successfully through adaptation and innovation. Successful evolution, however, requires further specific capabilities – those of managing change, learning and innovating, generating trust, and securing legitimacy for corporate governance. These abilities can be promoted in part by appropriate organizational policies, but they also rely significantly on the integrity and ethos of management. The chapters in Part IV in turn examine each of these capabilities for evolving effective organizations.

Chapter 13 identifies the policies and practices that facilitate major change in companies when events and trends require this to take place. Chapter 14 focuses on the impact organization can have on learning and knowledge creation within companies, with particular reference to supporting innovation. Increasing attention is being given ...