The politics of organizational change

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organisations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour.

If not fully understood, it can impede organisational change and development.

In order to minimise the political aspects of organisational dynamics there is a need to understand the extent to which organisational culture brings about politicised conformance and how individuals shape their behaviour through self-interest to conform - sense-giving and sense-making nexus - thus moderating the degree of change initiatives. 'The Politics of Organizational Change' explores the relationship between self-interest, power, politics and managing organisational change from a theoretical perspective.

It encourages the fundamental questioning of the relationship between self-interest, power and control inherent within organisational change, and discusses the attendant implications for managing change.