Leading Organizations through Transition

Stanley Deetz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and a President's Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research and professional practice has focused organizational culture and change, micro-practices of power in organizations, and designing interaction processes for collaborative decision-making. Deetz is author/co-author of over 150 scholarly essays and several books including Leading Organizations through Transitions, Doing Critical Management Research, Managing Interpersonal Communication, Transforming Communication-Transforming Business, and Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar and is a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar and an International Communication Association Past-President and Fellow. He has lectured widely giving well over one hundred visiting scholar and invited lectures in twenty-four countries. Dr. Sarah J. Tracy (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000) is associate professor or organizational communication. Her scholarly work examines emotion, communication and identity in the workplace with particular focus on emotional labor, workplace bullying, burnout and work-life wellness

Introduction Managing Hearts, Minds and Souls Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture Vision and Cultural Development Guiding Interpretations and the Art of Framing Employee Participation and Cultural Change The Ethics of Cultural Control and Organizational Change Culture and Technological Change Managing Culture through Transition Periods Managing Culture in Multinational Organizations Putting a Change Process Together