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

by David A. Buchanan, Richard Badham

` Anecdotes and case illustrations, including checklists and guidelines are provided, making this book useful for post-experience and postgraduate students of management and organizational behaviour, and for senior undergraduates. This book will also be relevant to managers and employees involved in organizational change′ - European Foundation for Management Development Power, Politics, and Organizational Change offers a theoretical and practical guide to the politics of change - an aspect of organizational life that plays a more significant role than is commonly admitted. The focus lies with the internal change agent, rather than with external consultants, as change is now a key element in the roles

Paperback

First published September 20, 1999

Reviews

[Iain Hamill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started reading this online and then switched to a hard copy, which made for much better going!

Enjoyed the less formal style with interspersed humour but I’m probably one of the readers they anticipate near the end who find their analysis too negative.

I think it would be naive to approach the subject of politics in organisations without a massive dose of cynicism but also suspect they a lot of political players in these organisations have less Machiavellian intent than the authors suggest.

Also didn’t quite get their take on Foucault. That might be more my fault than theirs though.