Christopher Worley – författare

Organization Development and Change provides students with an excellent grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of the subject as well as describing, in practical terms, how behavioural science can be used to develop organizational strategies, structures and processes. This market-leading text will enrich your students’ understanding and study of organization development, change management and human resources management.Through clear explanations and an emphasis on real world examples and case studies, this second edition for Europe, South Africa and the Middle East is a comprehensive and engaging text that will teach your students fundamental theories of organization development and encourage your students to apply these to real world situations.

Organisation Change: Development and Transformation looks at the development of organisations and the ways organisations evolve to reflect what’s going on around them, as well as ways you can approach this transformation. The text also discusses the future directions of change management, and why gaining a competitive advantage is the goal of many organisations.To emphasise the relationship between theory to practice, this text provides 10 local and international case studies, descriptions from practitioners and a range of online cases.

A member of the AWL OD Series! Discover how firms can improve their performance and effectiveness through strategic change in Integrated Strategic Change. This book offers a unique perspective, focusing on how organizational development practitioners can assist in this substantiative and systematic change that affects an organization���s strategy, structure, and process within a given competitive context.

The sustainability of agri-food supply chains is particularly relevant for global sustainable development. Many existing food production systems do more harm than good. They compromise the natural rhythms of the Earth, introduce toxins, and therefore sacrifice future capability for current demands – the opposite of sustainable development norms. The existing system is also unbalanced with respect to its capacity to produce, the amount of waste it generates, the number of people who suffer from hunger, and the nutritional value it provides. Most of the current supply chains have been developed within the classic economic paradigm, where scale and leverage drive choices towards more profitable models. As a consequence, finding new ways to produce, distribute and consume food is a morale, financial, and environmental necessity. Sustainable development and triple bottom line perspectives provide the logic for questioning this paradigm. This book presents and discusses nine cases of organizational innovation in food supply chain, covering different phases of food production, facing different challenges, and proposing different solutions to the challenge of sustainable food development.