1st Edition

Agency and Change Rethinking Change Agency in Organizations

By Raymond Caldwell Copyright 2006
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Rise of the Change Agent 3. Change Leaders 4. The Manager as Change Agent 5. Management Consultants as Change Agents 6. The Emergence of Change Teams 7. The Learning Organization and Change Agency 8. Four Models of Change Agency 9. The Future of Change Agency 10. Conclusions

Biography

Raymond Caldwell is Reader in Organizational Change at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests include organizational change theories, change agency and leadership, and the role of the HR function in the management of change.

'Agency and Change remains an important critical analysis of organizational change theory as it faces up to new, complex organizational realities.' - Robert Wapshott for Work, Employment and Society