Managing Change in Public Sector Organisations

The most complete book on this page. Eight lessons covering change models, problem diagnosis, planned change techniques, resistance, the steps of an OD programme, and the ethics and politics that come with it.

Guru Jambheshwar University

A practical toolkit for anyone actually running a change initiative. It breaks the work into pre-work, sponsorship, stakeholder analysis and communication planning, with worksheets you can fill in as you go.

University of California, Berkeley

Eight tools for leading a change effort, one per stage: a readiness rubric, a stakeholder strategizer, a resistance reducer and a scale and sustainability score sheet among them. Each comes with a worked example.

Jody Spiro

A step by step playbook written for public sector managers, with worksheets attached. It moves from preparing for change through managing it to making it stick, and names what usually goes wrong at each step.

State of Washington Office of Financial Management

An academic article on the phases, barriers and variables of organisational change. It compares the main methods side by side and shows why culture decides which one will work.

Asil Alkaya and C. Erdem Hepaktan