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Larry Greiner, University of Southern California,
and Virginia Schein, Gettysburg College
1988 0-201-12185-9 184 pp. SoftcoverPublished by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
The authors recognize that power is essential for getting things done in an organization-implementing ideas, obtaining budget approvals, dealing effectively with other departments, and promoting new policies and procedures. Their book will provide students with a solid grounding in the role of power and politics in organizations, with a specific focus on how managers use power bases and strategies to get things done. Also within this power and political perspective it gives students strategies and intervention techniques from both a micro and macro level for bringing about change in organizations.
Contents
- Reconciling Power with OD
- Defining a Political Model of Organizations
- Developing Power Bases
- Using Power Strategies
- Deceiving Others Through Power: All That Glitters
- Personalizing Power
- Diagnosing Power
- Mega Corporation Stage I: Consolidating Power to Prepare for Change
- Mega Corporation Stage II: Focusing Power on Strategic Consensus
- Mega Corporation Stage III: Aligning Power with Structure and People
- Mega Corporation Stage IV: Releasing Power Through Leadership and Collaboration
- Acquiring and Using Power as a Change Agent
- Bibliography
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