Politics of Organizational Change

Robert Price is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Change Management and Leadership at Suffolk Business School, University of Suffolk (UK), and is Chair of the Organizational Studies Track, British Academy of Management.

• AcknowledgementsPreface Introduction1. Self-Interest And Political BehaviourThe root of self-interestLocus of powerPoliticised behaviour within organizationsMaintaining position through political behaviour2. Political Narratives Of ChangeOrganizational change narratives Individual narrativesMutually assured delusionMoving into the "white space"3. Illusion of ControlPower through politics: organizational and individualThe politics of resistanceWho controls and shapes change?Political reorientation of psychological contracts4. Implications For Managing ChangeRealpolitik of changeThe illusion of controlPolitics, power and conflictRational emotional response to change5. Managing The Political And Power Dynamic Of ChangeManaging the unmanageableThe antitheses of political behaviourFrom rhetoric to action: Shaping organizational political dynamics through polyarchic orientationIndex