In 1991 Charles Handy concluded that the basic purpose of an organisation is to perpetuate itself within the context of the environment in which it operates. You might not have thought about it in quite that way, but that conviction encapsulates and
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When considering the role of HR in organisational change, there appears to have been a shift from the concept of ‘managing change’ to ‘supporting change’. And understandably so; managing has echoes of control which in the context of this emotive, an