This book draws on the author´s range of practical experience in the field of public management. The book may be most appealing to people who have to deal with re-development in educational organizations, partly because Baker has over three decades of expertise in that area. Nevertheless readers from other public and non-profit fields will also benefit from this handy to use and well-written textbook.
“Strategic Change Management in Public Sector Organisations” covers all the principal elements necessary for successful change management but gives them a special spin for the public sector. The book deals with the different people and cultures of public and non-profit work environments when compared to private companies. It also take into consideration the contrary customers and audiences these organizations have.
David Baker has structured the book in a way that it can be used both as ‘how-to’ manual in specific change situations as well as a text that can be read as a whole. With detailed chapters on the basics, the role of organizational culture, the tools necessary to facilitate change, and the strategies to implement change – it is very thorough approach to public change management.

Baker, David (2007). Strategic Change Management in Public Sector Organisations. Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited.