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 --