Agency, Change and Learning - Accounts of Internal Change Agents

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Agency, change and learning: The role of the internal change agent Part 1: Change agents and emergent identity: the wilful actor at work. Chapter 1. Working as a change agent: change and development with a coaching approach Chapter 2. Psychotherapists as Internal Change Agents Chapter 3. Discovering Agency as a Change Practitioner Chapter 4. Developing your practice model Part 2: Competing and collaborating logics: The academic practitioner divide. Chapter 5. Agency Attention in Performance-led Organisational Change Chapter 6. Change through a social system lens Chapter 7. Training and development in policing Chapter 8. Wilful actor and modular individual: Change agency in a University Business School Part 3: Reflexivity, learning and the internal conversation: The work of the modular individual. Chapter 9. Partnership renewal: the work of the internal change agent Chapter 10. The Role and Function of the Change Agent in Practice: Reflections on a path well-trodden Chapter 11. The Modular Individual

About the author

Julian Randall is an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University.
Bernard Burnes is Professor Emeritus of Organisational Change at Stirling Management School.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Burnes Randall
• Assisted by: Bernard Burnes (Editor), Randall Julian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032531076
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253107-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Organizational theory and behaviour