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Organizational and Educational Change: The Life and Role of A Change Agent Group book cover

1st Edition

Organizational and Educational Change The Life and Role of A Change Agent Group

By Jean M. Bartunek Copyright 2003
312 Pages
by Psychology Press

312 Pages
by Psychology Press

312 Pages
by Psychology Press
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Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and... Read more
Contents: A. Brief, J. Walsh, Series Editors' Foreword. Preface. The Foundations for the Work. The Founders' Vision and Design for the NFDC. An Exciting and Sometimes Difficult Beginning. The NFDC Begins to Implement Its Initiatives. A Year of Challenges. Trembling on the Edge. Dispersing Energies. A Role for the NFDC. The Vision Dims. The Triangle Model of Change Agent Group Dynamics: Evolving Identity, Actions, and Stakeholder Relationships in a Change Agent Group Setting. D.R. Wood, Implications of the NFDC's Work for Educational Policy. The Story Ends.

Biography

Jean M. Bartunek

"This book is a remarkable achievement...it is an exceptional piece of longitudinal ethnographic research....another strength of the book lies in its rounded organizational and writing style, with an excellent balance between narrative description and theory....All in all, this is a superb piece of work: an exemplar of careful and sensitive ethnographic work that makes a significant contribution to organization studies."
—ASQ

"This superb book is essential reading for anyone interested in the formation and maintenance of organizational identity and in the attempt to create and manage change."
—Stuart Albert
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

"What a rare and wonderful account of a group creating organizational innovation! Using her triangular method of analysis, Jean Bartunek provides a vivid understanding of the life of this group over time. So many are searching for better paths to organizational change. This book offers a valuable base on which to build."
—Jean Baker Miller
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School and Wellesley

"The work is excellently researched, well documented and theoretically focused on important topics to the field."
—Sharon Kruse
University of Akron

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