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Changing Change Management: Strategy, Power and Resistance

Changing Change Management: Strategy, Power and Resistance

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Series: Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development

Business GeneralManagement

ISBN10: 1032175931
ISBN13: 9781032175935
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2021
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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