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“Many books on management are sanitized, cleanly technical accounts of the unreality of managerial life and work. Politics hardly feature. This book tells it like it is; it dishes the dirt, gets low-down, into the funky and fascinating politics of organizational life.”
—Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School and University of Technology, Sydney
Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game, Second Edition combines a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, and provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behavior.
Buchanan and Badham show how the change agent who is not politically skilled will fail, and that it is necessary to be able and willing to intervene in the political processes of the organization.
This revised edition includes a range of excellent new material and features, including: A new chapter on gender in approaches to organization politics; A full range of teaching materials including case studies, incident reports, self-assessments, and more; Each chapter recommends a feature film (or DVD) to illustrate aspects of organization politics; Fresh research evidence; Recent literature on the nature of entrepreneurial politics; A model of political expertise, and how that can be developed
This lively and accessible book will inform and engage MBA and other graduate degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behavior. It will also be valuable for practicing managers on tailored executive programs in organization politics.
David A. Buchanan, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cranfield University School of Management
Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney
Entrepreneurial Heroes
Entrepreneurial Heroes
Chapter Objectives
- To introduce the ethos of enterprise and the view of positive politics that it engenders.
- To outline the entrepreneurial agenda for the politics of innovation and change.
- To reflect on the interpretation and use of the entrepreneurial agenda by political entrepreneurs.
Accounting for Enterprise
Entrepreneurs have come to be seen as heroic figures: Bill Gates, Anita Roddick, Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson. They have enriched our lives by challenging old norms and assumptions, by creating something new, and by doing things that others thought couldn't be done, through a combination of vision and persistence. Entrepreneurs are inventors, dreamers, innovators, risk takers. Heroes have courage, integrity, passion, commitment. Entrepreneurial heroes, therefore, are prepared to step into the unknown, risking failure and personal loss, ...
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