Change Masters

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Book Overview

The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671528009
• ISBN13: 9780671528003
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Change book

Kanter takes leaders of all occupations through the intricacies of change in a readable, relevant book. Change Masters is a must read for anyone wanting to increase innovation and employee participation in their organization. I highly recommend this and put it on my list of management classics that I will consult again and again.

Roadblocks and Enablers of Organizational Change

_The Change Masters_ was written in 1983, and since that time organizations have become much more focused on issues of transformation, but I think employees of most companies will still recognize their organizations in these pages-- and not necessarily in the positive ways. This book was written in aid of waking the entrepreneurial spirit of the employees of large corporations and looks closely at the ways that this can be either stifled or made possible.Clearly written from a wealth of experience, Kanter draws on case studies of companies for whom she has worked. That experience is further supported by citations from academic research and a great deal of very strong analytical thought.

Brings several important themes together

This book was meaningful to me because it documents the relationship between an open organizational environment, individual employee productivity, and innovation.

Review of organisational structure and innovation.

If you've ever wondered what's wrong in the organisation you work for, why results are poor, why departments can't work together, why the best people keep leaving and why the rest feel helpless and miserable; this is the book for you. It's an academic text and the author draws strongly from her own research in several different organisations, some of whom she cannot name so gives them her own names - have fun guessing who they are. Of particular value is the section on roadblocks to managerial innovation, or how to prevent organisational success. A definite gift for your boss, but first erase all your comments like "that's us!" or "we do that!" because there will be plenty.