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Changing Change Management Darren McCabe

Changing Change Management By Darren McCabe

Changing Change Management by Darren McCabe


Summary

The literature on Change Management works from the premise that management possesses the power to achieve change. 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.

Changing Change Management Summary

Changing Change Management: Strategy, Power and Resistance by Darren McCabe

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 Change Management. What would a book on Change Management look like that takes resistance seriously? This book attempts precisely this by exploring how resistance is as much a part of change as the strategies of those that seek to enact it. The findings are drawn from a qualitative study of organizational transformation in a Local Government Authority in the UK. Its detailed empirical insights enable readers to explore organizational change from many different perspectives considering issues such as the strategic use of metaphor and counter-metaphors; management and employee resistance; organizational politics and cynicism.

It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students interested in change management, organizational studies, human resource management, and critical management studies.

About Darren McCabe

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NPB9780367140656
9780367140656
0367140659
Changing Change Management: Strategy, Power and Resistance by Darren McCabe
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2020-01-14
216
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