Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game Second Edition

Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game Second Edition book cover

Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game Second Edition

Author(s): David A. Buchanan (Author), Richard J. Badham (Author)

  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publication Date: 19 Feb. 2008
  • Edition: Second
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 376 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1412928346
  • ISBN-13: 9781412928342

Book Description

`Many books on management are sanitized, cleanly technical accounts of the unreality of managerial life and work. Politics hardly feature. This book tells it like it is: it dishes the dirt, gets low-down, into the funky and fascinating politics of organizational life′ – Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School and University of Technology, Sydney

Combining a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, this book provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behaviour.

Buchanan and Badham show how the change agent who is not politically skilled will fail, and that it is necessary to be able and willing to intervene in the political processes of the organization.

This revised edition includes a range of excellent new material and features, including:

– a new chapter on gender in approaches to organization politics

– a full range of teaching materials including case studies, incident reports, self-assessments, and more

– Each chapter recommends a feature film (or DVD) to illustrate aspects of organization politics

– fresh research evidence

– recent literature on the nature of entrepreneurial politics;

– a model of political expertise, and how that can be developed

This lively and engaging book is key to MBA and other Masters degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behaviour. It will also be valuable for practising managers on tailored executive programmes in organization politics.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Timely piece and great for injecting both humour and critical reflection into MBA courses on change. User-friendly yet not lacking in the theoretical grounding. — Dr Alexandra Bristow ― drupal Published On: 2011-02-01

Excellent book – will keep you posted on student feedback — Dr Allison Wylde ― drupal Published On: 2014-11-26

This was a very good book, quite different to the core texts on the module (e.g., Senior and Swailes, 2010) & (Gallos, 2006) as it gave the messiness of organisational change. — Dr David Biggs ― drupal Published On: 2010-11-15

A refreshingly different approach.
This text is useful supplementary reading for the L3 managing change module in Business & Management;
to be considered for future Postgrad modules too, particularly those for experienced p/t students. — Mr Clive Kerridge ― drupal Published On: 2010-11-30

An accessible but insightful book that is a must for all students of organisations and how they work in reality. — Mr Robin Miller ― drupal Published On: 2013-10-18

Very easy read and gives some good structure and models for students to start academia – excellent sources cited. — Mrs Katy Roberts ― drupal Published On: 2013-12-04

Clear examples and information. Easy read for students to follow. — Professor Joslin Pickens ― drupal Published On: 2015-05-19

About the Author

David is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management, and Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School.  He works freelance as a consultant, speaker, and author, specializing in change management and organization politics.  He has a Doctorate in Organizational Behaviour from Edinburgh University, was Director of Loughborough University Business School from 1992 to 1995, has held visiting posts in Australian and Canadian management schools, and has worked often in Australia and Sweden.

Dr Richard J Badham is Professor of Management in the Macquarie Business School Graduate School of Management. He writes, consults and teaches on leadership and change.  He is the author of the forthcoming book Ironies of Organizational Change (Edward Elgar, 2020), and is co-author of ‘Fire, Snowball, Mask and Movie: How Leaders Ignite and Sustain Change author (HBR 2011). He specializes in the use of storytelling, drama and arts-based interventions. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology, a Von Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Technical University, Berlin, and consultant to numerous companies including BHP, Ford and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, and the European Commission, West German, Australian and Brunei governments.


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