1st Edition
Changing Change Management Strategy, Power and Resistance
By Darren McCabe
Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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The literature on Change Management works from the premise that management possesses the power to achieve change and this is evident in that resistance is little more than a footnote in most textbooks. This assumption sits uneasily, however, with the high failure rate of Change Management interventions. This book seeks to explain this paradox by providing a critical ‘relational’ approach towards... Read more
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Landscape of Change Management
Chapter Three: Towards A Critical ‘Relational’ Perspective on Change Management
Chapter Four: The Contextual Landscape
Chapter Five: Metaphors-As-Power
Chapter Six: Management Resistance
Chapter Seven: Resistance: From Negative To Positive/Productive?
Chapter Eight: Cynicism In Service
Chapter Nine: Making Organizational Politics Political
Chapter Ten: Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Darren McCabe is Professor of Organization Studies at Lancaster University Management School, UK. He is the author of Power at Work: How Employees Reproduce the Corporate Machine which was published by Routledge, 2007.
