The Politics of Organizational Change PDF

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour.

If not fully understood, it can impede organizational change and development.

In order to minimise the political aspects of organizational dynamics there is a need to understand the extent to which organizational culture brings about politicised conformance and how individuals shape their behaviour through self-interest to conform—sense-giving and sense-making nexus—thus moderating the degree of change initiatives.

The Politics of Organizational Change explores the relationship between self-interest, power, politics and managing organizational change from a theoretical perspective.

It encourages the fundamental questioning of the relationship between self-interest, power and control inherent within organizational change, and discusses the attendant implications for managing change.

It will be of value to those who require a text that goes beyond set patterns of coverage found in textbooks dealing with managing change.