Agency, Change and Learning

Accounts of Internal Change Agents

Julian Randall, Bernard Burnes (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-52015-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
Zusatzinfo	8 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-032-52015-9 / 1032520159
ISBN-13	978-1-032-52015-5 / 9781032520155
Zustand	Neuware