Creating Paths of Change: Managing Issues and Resolving Problems in Organizations

Creating Paths of Change: Managing Issues and Resolving Problems in Organizations by Smith, Douglas M.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780761910077.

Individuals, organizations, and communities constantly engage in change. Creating Paths of Change is a provides the reader with a proven strategy for making changes and resolving issues more effectively. This effective workbook is written for individuals and groupsùmanagers, entrepreneurs, and consultants ûwho are taking responsibility for the change effort. It addresses the problems faced in the daily operations of organizational life, and provides a foundation and theory for effective and sustained issue resolution. Creating Paths of Change guides the reader, in a step-by-step fashion, through the change-making or decision-making process helping the reader identify and improve his or her personal problem-solving style. The book has been used by individual managers, community volunteers, organizational consultants in a number of settings, and has been thoroughly class-tested in university courses.