Effective Organizational Change: Leading Through Sensemaking

Organizations are constantly evolving, and intelligent leadership is needed during times of transformation. Change leaders must help people become aware of, understand and find meaning in the new things which arise — they must oversee a sensemaking process.Addressing this need, Effective Organizational Change explores the importance of leadership for organizational change based on sensemaking. Combining a theoretical overview, models and conceptual discussions rich with in-depth examples and case studies, this book uncovers what it is that leaders actually do when they lead change through sensemaking. It presents the most current sensemaking research, extends earlier work by developing the concept of ‘landscaping’, and provides guidelines on how leaders can drive sensemaking processes in practice.This book is for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of organizational change, as well as managers embarking on change projects within their organizations.

About the Author

Einar Iveroth is Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is an expert in organizational change and IT-enabled change and has published widely in leading journals such as the California Management Review , Journal of Change Management , Journal of Environmental Management , European Management Journal , and Health Care Management Review .

Jacob Hallencreutz PhD is a Change Expert in one of Scandinavia’s leading management consultancies. He has 25 years of experience of leading change in both manufacturing and service organizations, including some of the largest in northern Europe. Jacob is also a leading researcher and has published in a number of international scientific journals.