ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE (4TH ED.)Barbara Senior & Stephen Swailes

Chapter 6: Leadership and change

LEARNING OBJECTIVESBy the end of this chapter, you will be able to: explain the differences between leaders and

managers; discuss whether there is ‘one best way’ of

leading or whether leadership style and behavior should vary according to the circumstances;

take a critical stance in relation to conventional portrayals of organizational leaders;

assess the compatibility of different leadership approaches with different types of change situations;

identify sources and causes of resistance to change and discuss ways of countering it.