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Schaller, Lyle E.

The change agent / Lyle E. Schaller. - 207 p. ; 19 cm.

Includes index

1 HOW TO CUT YOUR OWN THROAT --
2 THE NATURE OF CHANGE --
Types of change --
Sources of change --
Inside or outside? --
The third alternative --
From invention to innocation --
The nature of innovation --
Opening the dooor to innovation --
"You can't legislate morality!" --
The pace of change --
Expectations and change --
Responses of people to change --
The institutional lag --
The influence of a crisis --

3 THE PROCESS OF PLANNED CHANGE --
Force field analysis --
The process of planned change --
The importance of discontent --
The self-identified discrepancy --
The initiating group --
The supporting group --
Implementation --
Freezing the chang e--
Teh counterstrategy --

4 Questions for the change agent --
Three styles --
The death of big daddy --
How do you get things done? --
What are the rules? --
Hard choices and simplistic solutions --
The change agent's baggage --

5 THE USE OF POWER AND SOCIAL CHANGE --
The nature of power --
The exercise of power --
Who has the power --
The sources of power --
Power in the local church --
The power of power --
Power and participatory democracy --
The contemporary dispersal of power --
The ethical and moral dilemma --

6 ANTICIPATING AND MANAGING CONFLICT --
A constructive approach --
Preventing polarization --

7 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE --
Why? --
What? --
How? --
But!

ISBN: 0687060427

LCCN: Acc#25582,31754,31755,35542,43251

Subjects--Topical Terms:
SOCIAL CHANGE
LEADERSHIP

LC Class. No.: HM 101 / Sch15 1972