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.

Agency, Change and Learning

Agency, Change and Learning
Author: Julian Randall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1003823246

Despite the plethora of books on change, there appears a notable gap in the field; rarely is the authentic and candid voice of change agents heard. How often do academics or practitioners candidly state what they actually do when they are faced with managing change in their own organisations or when they are called on in a consultancy capacity? In this new book, the editors bring together a diverse group of contributors who have worked as Internal Change Agents in organizations to divulge what they really do and think about change. The authors draw on their own research work involving change agents and their change interventions and include current reflections on the post-Covid world of work, and the change required for achieving change interventions successfully. Each contribution offers perspectives from real change programmes, in both the public and private sector, offering a unique opportunity to move beyond theory and understand change in practice. The book offers valuable insights for academics and students of organisational change and behaviour, leadership and organisational development.

How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior

How Courts Impact Federal Administrative Behavior
Author: Robert J. Hume
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135838127

What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies after courts rule against them. Robert J. Hume draws upon dozens of interviews with current and former administrators, taking readers behind the scenes of these organizations to reveal their internal procedures, their attitudes about courts, and their surprising capacity to be influenced by a judge’s choice of words. This fascinating study will be of interest to students and scholars of politics as well as those seeking great understanding of the intricacies of the US political system.

International Forest Policies in Indonesia: International Influences, Power Changes and Domestic Responses in REDD+, One Map and Forest Certification Politics

International Forest Policies in Indonesia: International Influences, Power Changes and Domestic Responses in REDD+, One Map and Forest Certification Politics
Author: Agung Wibowo
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-01-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 373698183X

The political contention that considers forests to be mere economic assets to achieve state welfare has slowly changed into a more conservative view since the Ninth World Forestry Congress in Mexico in 1985 rightly acknowledged that there has been severe tropical forest destruction and environmental deterioration around the globe.

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1108
Release: 2008
Genre: Agricultural laws and legislation
ISBN:

Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.