Power, Politics, and Organizational Change : Winning the Turf Game,9780761962212

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

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ISBN13: 9780761962212
ISBN10: 0761962212
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

'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 DevelopmentPower, 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

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(8)
How far are you prepared to go?
9(30)
The turf game
10(8)
The autonomy of organizational politics
18(5)
Change agency
23(2)
Turf game tactics
25(5)
The political entrepreneur: warrant and reputation
30(9)
The terminology game
39(34)
The necessary and desirable politics of change
40(3)
You take the high road
43(4)
Power: what is it, and how can I get more?
47(10)
We'll take the low road
57(10)
Organization politics: the language game
67(6)
Sit in judgement
73(26)
Warrants, accounts and reputations
74(1)
Good guys, bad guys
75(20)
What the chief executive wants. . .
79(2)
Sidelining the successful salesman
81(4)
Love letters in cyberspace
85(1)
The management development programme
86(1)
Telling tales really, uncomfortably
87(1)
Swing the budget, vilify the opposition
87(2)
Quality tactics
89(1)
Fraud and retribution
90(1)
The true purpose of truth
91(1)
Frustrate you, frustrate me in return
92(2)
Your assignment, my change project
94(1)
A framework for comparative judgements
95(4)
Men behaving badly
99(27)
Motivation, morals and legitimacy
100(3)
Machiavellian politics
103(6)
From organization man to gamesman
109(8)
The empowered manager and male politics
117(9)
The enterpreneurial hero
126(28)
The Rising Sun
127(2)
Intrapreneurs and change masters
129(5)
The new leadership
134(5)
The moral maze
139(12)
The moral matrix
151(3)
The politics of failure and the failure of politics
154(25)
Failing fashions
155(2)
The politics of failure
157(9)
The failure of politics
166(6)
The political entrepreneur
172(7)
Power-assisted steering: maxims for Princes and Princessas
179(30)
Positioning: pitch and players
180(5)
Beyond the recipe: a creative perspective
185(4)
Playing the turf game: strategies and tactics
189(10)
Accounting: the politics of completion and afterlife
199(5)
The perspective of the political entrepreneur
204(5)
The triggering factors
209(23)
Personal, decisional and structural triggers
210(4)
Politics in the postmodern organization: has the ground moved?
214(3)
Machiavelli in a new millennium
217(6)
The `right stuff': developing political competence
223(5)
A loss of innocence?
228(4)
Appendix I: Information sources 232(2)
Appendix II: The Machiavellian personality 234(3)
References 237(12)
Index 249

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