Program/Project Management Resource List #11

Revised Sept. 2006

The following titles deal with planning or initiating organizational change and offer some fine analysis on the subject. Please refer to PPM Resource Lists #36 "Change Management" and #44 "Change Agents" for some additional materials.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your local library for the availibilty of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.

Books

Behaviorial Science Technology, Inc. Assessment and Plan for Organizational Culture Change at NASA. Ojai, CA: Behaviorial Science Technology, Inc.; Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.

TL521.312 .A86 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

Bennet, Alex and David Bennet. Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System. Amsterdam; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.

HD58.8 .B46 O74 2004 PPM-STACKS

 

Doppelt, Bob. Leading Change Towards Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf, 2003.

HC79 .E5 D68 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

Dunphy, Dexter C., Andrew Griffiths, and Suzanne Benn. Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders and Change Agents of the Future. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.

HD58.8 .D86 2003 PPM-STACKS

 

Eckes, George. Making Six Sigma Last: Managing the Balance between Cultural and Technical Change. New York: John Wiley, 2001.

HD58.8 .E25 2001 PPM-STACKS

 

Foster, Richard N. and Sarah Kaplan. Creative Destruction: Why Companies That are Built to Last Underperform the Market, and how to Successfully Transform Them. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2001.

HD58.8 .F68 2001 PPM-STACKS

 

Hall, Richard H. Organizations: Structures, Processes, and Outcomes. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.

HM786 .H35 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

Kelley, John D. An Organizational History of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: A Critical Comparison of Administrative Decision Making in Two Pivotal Eras. Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2002.

TL521.312 .K46 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

Kelman, Steven. Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

JF1525 .O73 K45 2005 PPM-STACKS

 

Lambright, W. Henry. Executive Response to Changing Fortune: Sean O'Keefe as NASA Administrator. Washington, D.C.: IBM Center for the Business of Government, [2005].

TL521.312 .L36 2005 PPM-STACKS

 

--------. Transforming Government: Dan Goldin and the Remaking of NASA. Arlington, VA: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, 2001.

TL521.312 .L29 2001 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report. [Arlington, VA]: Columbia Accident Investigation Board; Washington, D.C.: Distributed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 2003-

TL795.5 .C65 2003 BOOKSTACKS, also available at http://history.nasa.gov/columbia/CAIB_reportindex.html.

 

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Roles, Responsibilities and Structures Team. Report of the Roles, Responsibilities and Structures ("Clarity") Team. [Washington, D.C.]: The Team: [2004].

TL521.312 .C54 2004 BOOKSTACKS, also available at http://insidenasa.nasa.gov/nasa_nas/ops/NASA_transformation/images/Clarity_report.pdf.

Articles and Reports

Collins, Michelle and Gerald Mulenburg. "Check Out These Books", ASK Magazine, no. 7 (March 2002), p. 46-48.

(20020070190: (March 2002) NASA ASD)

 

DeCanio, Stephen J., Catherine Dibble, and Keyvan Amir-Atefi. "Importance of organizational structure for the adoption of innovations". Management Science, vol. XLVI, no. 10; p. 1285-1299.

(20010111970: (Oct. 2000); NASA ASD)

 

Dudley, Larkin and Mary Raymer. "Inside Organizational Change: Puzzling Across Permeable Boundaries", Public Administration Review, vol. LXI, no. 5 (2001), p. 620-624.

 

Fernandez, Sergio and Hal Rainey. "Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector", Public Administration Review, vol. LXVI, no. 2 (2006), p. 168-176.

 

Heracleous, Loizos, and Michael Barrett. "Organizational Change as Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures in the Context of Information Technology Implementation", Academy of Management Journal, vol. XLIV, no. 4 (Aug. 2001), p. 755-778.

This article plus the article by Pettigrew, Woodman, and Cameron referenced below are from a special issue of Academy of Management Journal with other articles on organizational change.

 

Ingelgard, Anders and Flemming Norrgren. "Effects of change strategy and top-management involvement on quality of working life and economic results". International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, vol. XXVII, no. 2; p. 93-105.

(20020034293: (Feb. 2001); NASA ASD)

 

Kim, Hee-Woong. "Business process versus coordination process in organizational change". International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, vol. XII, no. 4; p. 275-290

(20010109069: (Oct. 2000); NASA ASD)

 

Larson, Charles F. "Management for the New Millenium - The Challenge of Change", Research Technology Management, vol. XLIV, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2001), p. 10-12

 

McMillan, Alec. "Roadmapping - Agent of Change", Research Technology Management, vol. XLVI, no. 2 (March/April 2003), p. 40-47.

 

Pettigrew, Andrew M., Richard W.Woodman, and Kim S. Cameron. "Studying Organizational Change and Development: Challenges for Future Research", Academy of Management Journal, vol. XLIV, no. 4 (Aug. 2001), p. 697-713.

This article plus the article by Heracleous and Barrett referenced above are from a special issue of Academy of Management Journal with other articles on organizational change.

 

Sugarman, Barry. "A Learning-Based Approach to Organizational Change - Some Results and Guidelines", Organizational Dynamics, vol. XXX, no. 1 (2001), p. 62-77.

 

Templeton, Gary F. "Using CASE to Adopt Organizational Learning at NASA", The 2002 NASA Faculty Fellowship Program Research Reports, NASA/CR-2003-212397.

(20030093583: (April 2003); NASA ASD)

 

Thompson, Richard C., Kurt M. Joseph, Lawrence L. Bailey, Jody A. Worley, Clara A. Williams. Organizational Change: An Assessment of Trust and Cynicism; Final Report. DOT/FAA/AM-00/14.

(20000094004: (May 2000); NASA ASD)

 

Vaughan, Diane. "Changing NASA: The Challenges of Organizational System Failures", Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight, NASA/SP-2006-4702.

(20060022847: (2006); NASA ASD)

 

Wise, Lois. "Public Management Reform: Competing Drivers of Change", Public Administration Review, vol. LXII, no. 5 (2002), p. 555-567.

Internet Resources

Association of Internal Management Consultants. 2005 [cited 28 Aug. 2006]

http://www.aimc.org/

 

Jennings, Nanette. NASA Online Directives Information System. The NASA Organization w/Change. 6 July 2006 [cited 28 Aug. 2006]

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PD_1000_003B_&page_name=main

 

McNamara, Carter. Overview of Organizational Change. 1999 [cited 25 Aug. 2006]

http://www.managementhelp.org/org_chng/org_chng.htm#anchor683852

 

NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center. Office of Human Capital Management. Organizational Leadership Results and Culture Office. 21 March 2006 [cited 28 Aug. 2006]

http://ohcm.gsfc.nasa.gov/OLCO/Home.htm

 

NASA. Headquarters Training and Development. Leadership Alchemy Program. 20 July 2006 [cited 31 Aug. 2006]

http://ohcm.gsfc.nasa.gov/DevGuide/Hq/HQ_Alchemy/home06.htm

 

Northwestern University. Center for Learning and Organizational Change. 12 July 2005 [cited 25 Aug. 2006]

http://www.cloc.sesp.northwestern.edu/

 

Organization Development Consulting & Training. [cited 28 Aug. 2006]

http://www.orgdct.com/

 

Organization Development Institute. July 2006? [cited 25 Aug. 2006]

http://www.odinstitute.org/

 

Organization Development Network. 2006 [cited 25 Aug. 2006]

http://www.odnetwork.org/

 

Sullivan, Gene. Integrated Enterprise Management Program. 28 March 2006 [cited 15 Sept. 2006]

http://iemp.nasa.gov/basics.htm

 

University of Missouri at Columbia. Center for the Study of Organizational Change. 20 May 2005 [cited 25 Aug. 2006]

http://truman.missouri.edu/csoc/index.html