1st Edition

Agency, Change and Learning Accounts of Internal Change Agents

Edited By Julian Randall, Bernard Burnes Copyright 2024
240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Agency, change and learning: The role of the internal change agent

Julian Randall and Bernard Burnes

Part 1: Change agents and emergent identity: the wilful actor at work.

Julian Randall and Bernard Burnes

Chapter 1. Working as a change agent: change and development with a coaching approach

Sarah Smith

Chapter 2. Psychotherapists as Internal Change Agents

Linda MacLeod

Chapter 3. Discovering Agency as a Change Practitioner

Elaine Mottram

Chapter 4. Developing your practice model

Tricia Boyle

Part 2: Competing and collaborating logics: The academic practitioner divide.

Julian Randall and Bernard Burnes

Chapter 5. Agency Attention in Performance-led Organisational Change

Tom Pfefferkorn

Chapter 6. Change through a social system lens

Helen Mackenzie

Chapter 7. Training and development in policing

Richard Harding

Chapter 8. Wilful actor and modular individual: Change agency in a University Business School

Umit Bititchi

Part 3: Reflexivity, learning and the internal conversation: The work of the modular individual.

Julian Randall and Bernard Burnes

Chapter 9. Partnership renewal: the work of the internal change agent

James Storrie

Chapter 10. The Role and Function of the Change Agent in Practice: Reflections on a path well-trodden

Tracey Reddings

Chapter 11. The Modular Individual

Ron Skea

Biography

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.