Educational Alternatives, Volume 12, 2014

Abstract: Change management is the process of continually renewing an organization’s direction, structure, and capabilities to serve the ever-changing needs of external and internal customers. It is clear that more theory and research are needed for a better understanding of the process of change in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a variety of theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations and contribute to the field in this area by presenting an integrated model of change management in educational field. This paper has discussed a variety of theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations. Based on the theoretical approaches to the management of the change process within organizations described, from educational perspective organisational leaders in schools should take steps for change management initiatives for each of organization’s subsystems and should plan and implement this change management process integrated and congruent.