Agency, Change and Learning

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.

• Introduction: Agency, change and learning: The role of the internal change agent Part 1: Change agents and emergent identity: the wilful actor at work. Chapter 1. Working as a change agent: change and development with a coaching approach Chapter 2. Psychotherapists as Internal Change Agents Chapter 3. Discovering Agency as a Change Practitioner Chapter 4. Developing your practice model Part 2: Competing and collaborating logics: The academic practitioner divide. Chapter 5. Agency Attention in Performance-led Organisational Change Chapter 6. Change through a social system lens Chapter 7. Training and development in policing Chapter 8. Wilful actor and modular individual: Change agency in a University Business School Part 3: Reflexivity, learning and the internal conversation: The work of the modular individual. Chapter 9. Partnership renewal: the work of the internal change agent Chapter 10. The Role and Function of the Change Agent in Practice: Reflections on a path well-trodden Chapter 11. The Modular Individual