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Power, Politics and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game David Buchanan and Richard Badham Sage London 1999 272 pp. ISBN 0 7619 6222 0 L17.99 (paperback)
Keywords Organizational politics, Managerial power, Organizational change, Management development
The authors' stated purpose in writing this book stems from four beliefs. First, there is the reality of politics in organisations. Second, there is the repression of politics, through unrealistic denial, naive acceptance without engagement or unhelpful recognition without advice. Third, there are the two faces of politics, what might be called its nice and nasty faces. Fourth, there is the challenge to management development to help managers deal with the realities and complexities of political behaviour in organisations. The book is directed to the practising manager and the internal change agent.
Chapter 1 - How far are you prepared to go? - explores the broad...