Redesigning Human Systems

Mumford, Enid

Jul 2002 · IGI Global

About this ebook

Organizational change is becoming increasingly complex, challenging and difficult to handle as technology advances. And there is a need to discuss how it can be both more effectively managed by large and small organizations, while at the same time the strategies for changes are based on ethical notions of democracy and participation. Redesigning Human Systems assists those interested in and responsible for the management of major change within organizations, and provides the theories and values that should be adhered to in order to achieve that change successfully and effectively.

About the author

Enid Mumford is an Emeritus Professor of Manchester University, England and a Visiting Fellow at the Manchester Business School. Her research experience has included a year at the University of Michigan and a period at UCLA. She is also a member of the US Socio-technical Round Table. In 1983 she won the American Warnier prize for her contributions to information science. In 1996 she was given an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland and in1999 she was one of four international academics to be given a Leo award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems by AIS (Association of Information Systems) and ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems). The other recipients were from the United States and Sweden. Her principal research interests are the management of change, problem solving and participative design. [Editor]