Agency, Change and Learning

Accounts of Internal Change Agents
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-52015-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development

Despite the plethora of books on change, there appears a notable gap in the field; rarely is the authentic and candid voice of change agents heard. How often do academics or practitioners candidly state what they actually do when they are faced with managing change in their own organisations or when they are called on in a consultancy capacity? In this new book, the editors bring together a diverse group of contributors who have worked as Internal Change Agents in organizations to divulge what they really do and think about change.

The authors draw on their own research work involving change agents and their change interventions and include current reflections on the post-Covid world of work, and the change required for achieving change interventions successfully. Each contribution offers perspectives from real change programmes, in both the public and private sector, offering a unique opportunity to move beyond theory and understand change in practice.

The book offers valuable insights for academics and students of organisational change and behaviour, leadership and organisational development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randall, Julian

Burnes, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Agency, change and learning: The role of the internal change agent  Part 1: Change agents and emergent identity: the wilful actor at work.  Chapter 1. Working as a change agent: change and development with a coaching approach  Chapter 2. Psychotherapists as Internal Change Agents  Chapter 3. Discovering Agency as a Change Practitioner  Chapter 4. Developing your practice model  Part 2: Competing and collaborating logics: The academic practitioner divide.  Chapter 5. Agency Attention in Performance-led Organisational Change  Chapter 6. Change through a social system lens  Chapter 7. Training and development in policing  Chapter 8. Wilful actor and modular individual: Change agency in a University Business School  Part 3: Reflexivity, learning and the internal conversation: The work of the modular individual.  Chapter 9. Partnership renewal: the work of the internal change agent  Chapter 10. The Role and Function of the Change Agent in Practice: Reflections on a path well-trodden  Chapter 11. The Modular Individual

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Randall is an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University.

Bernard Burnes is Professor Emeritus of Organisational Change at Stirling Management School.