Images of Change in Managers

Images of Change
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Analyze the six images of managing change presented in your text. Identify the key elements that each of the six images proposes for change management. Discuss why these traits are significant to managing change successfully. Need cite and reference can the writer have access to Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach (3rd Edition)
Palmer, Dunford & Buchanan (2017) identified six images of managing change that is broadly classified in controlling (roles and activities) and shaping (enhancing capabilities). Leaders play the following six roles: director, navigator, and caretaker under controlling and coach, interpreter, and nurturer under shaping.
As a director, change managers give direction on achieving the desired outcome when changing and providing the necessary resources. Planning and controlling are management functions that are useful in management and leadership to get things done.
Change leaders are navigators who manage resistance to change and bring all the team members to achieve the common objective. It ...