Power, Politics, and Organizational Change
Winning the Turf Game
- David Buchanan - Cranfield University, UK
- Richard Badham - Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Australia
"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
Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game, Second Edition combines a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, and provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behavior.
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 accessible book will inform and engage MBA and other graduate degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behavior. It will also be valuable for practicing managers on tailored executive programs in organization politics.
David A. Buchanan, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cranfield University School of Management
Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney
This provides students with useful insights into the difficult-to-teach area of power and politics in business. It's useful for them to understand that although it may be an inconvenient truth, power and politics is not necessarily an autocratic device so to understand its context in organizational change is helpful.
Clear examples and information. Easy read for students to follow.
Emphasis on three main topics needed for our course, and narrative engagement is supportive of class discussions.
Excellent book - will keep you posted on student feedback
Very easy read and gives some good structure and models for students to start academia - excellent sources cited.
An accessible but insightful book that is a must for all students of organisations and how they work in reality.
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.
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.
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.
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
