Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game

"Many books on management are sanitized, cleanly technical accounts of the unreality of managerial life and work.  Politics hardly feature.  This book tells it like it is; it dishes the dirt, gets low-down, into the funky and fascinating politics of organizational life."
―Stewart Clegg, Aston Business School and University of Technology, Sydney



Power, Politics, and Organizational Change: Winning the Turf Game, Second Edition combines a practical and theoretical guide to the politics of organizational change, and provides an exceptional resource to students of change management, and organizational behavior.

Buchanan and Badham show how the change agent who is not politically skilled will fail, and that it is necessary to be able and willing to intervene in the political processes of the organization.

This revised edition includes a range of excellent new material and features, including:

• A new chapter on gender in approaches to organization politics
• A full range of teaching materials including case studies, incident reports, self-assessments, and more
• Each chapter recommends a feature film (or DVD) to illustrate aspects of organization politics
• Fresh research evidence
• Recent literature on the nature of entrepreneurial politics
• A model of political expertise, and how that can be developed 

This lively and accessible book will inform and engage MBA and other graduate degree candidates taking courses in change management, and organizational behavior.  It will also be valuable for practicing managers on tailored executive programs in organization politics.


David A. Buchanan, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Cranfield University School of Management
Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney

Dr Richard J Badham is Professor of Management in the Macquarie Business School Graduate School of Management. He writes, consults and teaches on leadership and change.  He is the author of the forthcoming book Ironies of Organizational Change (Edward Elgar, 2020), and is co-author of ‘Fire, Snowball, Mask and Movie: How Leaders Ignite and Sustain Change author (HBR 2011). He specializes in the use of storytelling, drama and arts-based interventions. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology, a Von Humboldt Senior Fellow at the Technical University, Berlin, and consultant to numerous companies including BHP, Ford and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, and the European Commission, West German, Australian and Brunei governments.