Micro Changes
A Process Perspective on Organizational Change
(Author) Signe Bruskin"This book is about organizational change, a topic I've been preoccupied with for years, from working in the corporate world and academically when researching as a Ph.D. student. My initial curiosity came from practice when my job was to keep a people perspective while the organization kept changing strategically and structurally. Regardless of the outcome of the changes, the remaining question was how to be an employee or leader in an organization that kept changing. That was also my main argument when I suggested a research project on organizational changes to top management in the organization. Luckily, they saw a need to get an answer to that question. So, the starting point was the practice perspective, which is also the book's essence. To give academia a glimpse into the practice perspective of organizational change and, simultaneously, provide the practice a theoretical perspective on the organizational changes they experience. Theoretically, the book is grounded in a process perspective, particularly a process philosophical approach to change. A field that brings in a crucial and often neglected aspect of the organizational changes that matter most to employees, namely micro changes"--