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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: Theory
Chapter 2. The theories of change
Chapter 3. Making sense of sensemaking theory
Chapter 4. Deciphering some sources of sensemaking cues
Chapter 5. Leadership and sensemaking

Part II: Practice
Chapter 6. Landscaping: leading through sensemaking
Chapter 7. Exploring landscaping in practice
Chapter 8. Summary, lessons learned and concluding thoughts