Agency and Change

Agency and Change
Author: Raymond Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134357885

This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty.

Agency and Change

Agency and Change
Author: Raymond Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134357877

This excellent book remaps the limits and possibilities of change, clearly shifting the focus from outmoded debates on agency and structure to new practice-based discourses on agency and change. Offering readers a selective and critical review of key literature and empirical research, it will help students contextualize this complex subject area and independently evaluate future prospects for effective change agent roles in organizations Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of competing discourses, the book uses two overarching conceptual continua: centred agency-decentred agency and systems-processes, thereby allowing a more intensive focus on agency and change. Well-written with challenging content, this book is essential reading for those interested in the origins, development and future prospects for change agency in an organizational world characterized by increasing complexity, risk and uncertainty.

The Changing Organization

The Changing Organization
Author: Kaijun Guo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107146801

The book is designed for academics and graduate students in organization theory, social theory, cybernetics, cross-cultural theory and systems theory. It examines social collectives and organisation culture, presenting a theoretical framework capable of improving our understanding and anticipation of its patterns of behaviour.

Explaining Institutional Change

Explaining Institutional Change
Author: James Mahoney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521118832

The essays in this book contribute to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change, providing a theoretical framework and empirical applications.

People Power Manual

People Power Manual
Author: Jason MacLeod
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780994393906

The People Power Manual has been compiled as a resource for activist educators and trainers. It is a collection of participatory and experiential processes and handouts organised around the themes of educating the educator, strategy, civil resistance, community organising, working with groups and resilience in the face of repression. This guide is focused around one of those themes: campaign strategy. The purpose of the People Power Manual is to support facilitators/educators working to assist local action groups and social movements win environmental and social justice goals.

Communicating Social Change

Communicating Social Change
Author: Mohan J. Dutta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136848819

Communicating Social Change describes the social challenges that exist in current globalization politics, and examines the communicative processes, strategies and tactics through which social change interventions are constituted in response to the challenges.

Building Change

Building Change
Author: Lisa Findley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780415318754

This book focuses on the role architects and architecture are playing in the process of political and cultural negotiation.

The Power of Agency

The Power of Agency
Author: Dr. Paul Napper
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1250127572

Introducing The Power of Agency, a science-backed approach to living life on your own terms. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for yourself—reflecting, making creative choices, and constructing a meaningful life. Grounded in extensive psychological research, The Power of Agency gives you the tools to help alleviate anxiety, manage competing demands and help you live your version of success. Renowned psychology experts Paul Napper and Anthony Rao will help you break through your state of overwhelm by showing you how to access your personal agency with seven empowering principles: control stimuli, associate selectively, move, position yourself as a learner, manage your emotions and beliefs, check your intuition, deliberate and then act. Featuring stories of people who have successfully applied these principles to improve their lives, The Power of Agency will give you the insights and skills to build your confidence, conquer challenges, and live more authentically.

Constructing Global Order

Constructing Global Order
Author: Amitav Acharya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107170710

Examines how ideas of sovereignty and security from the non-Western world contribute to order and change in world politics.

Dare to Un-Lead

Dare to Un-Lead
Author: Celine Schillinger
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1773271830

2022 PORCHLIGHT LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY BOOK OF THE YEAR A transformational book for trying times, Dare to Un-Lead will challenge the way you think and feel about the role of leadership in your life. What is revered as leadership today is often nothing more than a destructive set of obsolete behaviors and systems evolved from the centuries-old industrial theories popularized by Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford. This mode of leadership harms individuals and societies and must be reinvented to better reflect the way we live, trade, and work in the 21st century. Dare to Un-Lead explores how contemporary organizations can transform leadership from a top-down hegemony to one that empowers people to lead together through the concepts of liberty, equality, and community. Kotter affiliate and global engagement leadership specialist Céline Schillinger combines her experience enacting digital-enabled, people-focused collective work practices in global corporate structures with a deep analysis of leadership—studied through multiple lenses and timely sources of knowledge—to provide original insights into why these practices work. The result is a series of evidence-based approaches for reinventing collective performance across organizations in a post-pandemic world. From large corporations to small businesses, the lessons learned in this landmark book, implemented individually and collectively over time, will make our workplaces more equal, our jobs more gratifying, and our economies more profitable. And that will make the world a better place.