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Bloomsbury Academic
13 November 2025
This compact textbook provides an overview of how firms experience change and develops a critical lens of how change is managed at the organisational, individual and group levels.

The authors bring to the fore the human aspect of change management: how you can learn to enact change in an ethical and empathetic way, taking into account psychological and cross-cultural perspectives, as well as business imperatives.

Today’s volatile and uncertain business environment means that change initiatives occur with greater frequency than ever before. A focus on employability skills permeates the text, to ensure that you are prepared to lead change in your professional life. Exercises at the end of each chapter prompt you to reflect on learning and how it could be effectively applied in an interview context, while a realistic fictional case study runs through the textbook, challenging you to guide the senior management team following an acquisition.

Change programmes can flourish with the right approach, or flounder amidst struggles over power, culture, office politics and interpersonal relationships: Organizational Change in Action is a practical, contemporary guide to effective change leadership.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   480g
ISBN:   9781350335141
ISBN 10:   1350335142
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Louise Boulter is Senior Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln (BGU) where is she is operational lead for the MBA and MSc programmes in Business. Thomas Calvard is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Goudarz Azar is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Middlesex University London.

Reviews for Organizational Change in Action

I think that you are addressing the topic in a comprehensive and foundational approach – there is nothing like this on the market. * Peter Lucash, Northeastern University, USA * Has potential to create a one-stop guide for OD and Change Management. The level is most appropriate. I would use this within my undergraduate class and potentially a chapter or two in my MBA Leadership class. Some chapters would be useful in our Executive MBA program as well. * Chuck Kalnbach, University of Oregon, USA * Closely aligned to the course design. * Ramona Blanes, University of Glasgow, UK * Excellent range of support provided to academics. Evidences a strong understanding by the author(s) of the challenges facing those who teach in H.E. and is clearly designed to support lecturers in delivering a change module. * Beverley Macmillan, University of Bradford/University of Sheffield, UK * Timely as it has considered three very recent events that have impacted organisations greatly- global financial crisis, industry 4.0 and the COVID-19 pandemic. From a change perspective, the book is quite rigorous in terms of content as it provides a grounding in the theory and practice of Organisational change. * Manjit Sandhu, Monash University, AU * The book looks a good final year undergraduate/postgraduate level text that would suit a similarly titled specialist module as part of an HR programme, or accompanying a more general HR module covering a number of related topics. Good mix of appropriate chapter titles addressing the issue of organisational change from a range of academic disciplines. * Ian Roper, University of Essex, UK *


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