Dianne Lewis The Place of Organizational Politics in Strategic change Dianne Lewis Navid...

The Place of Organizational Politics in Strategic changeDianne LewisDianne Lewis

Navid Ghaffarzadegan

Sharif University of TechnologySchool of Management

Navid Ghaffarzadegan Sharif University of Technology

Organizational Politics in Strategic change

An Overview of the paper

Change Strategic Change Organizational Politics Political Model of Change

This paper discusses the part that political model of change can play in conjunction with traditional strategic change model.



Change Where are we? Where should we be? How should we go?

NowNow GoalGoal

So, What is the problem??



Change

Organizations are social systems Change is not a rational process Emotions come into play as well …

People have no problem with change but with being changed!



Change

Sustainable Change How to change knowledge? Culture? Role of leadership …



Change

Leading the change is the key point…

Importance of Leadership



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what is the relation between our approach to strategy and managing change?



Strategic Change Strategy

Planning School …Formal method, external environment Design School … informal, SWOT

Mintzberg’s idea Chaos Theory

All approaches could be useful but don’t forget Organizations are not structures or

strategies, organizations are people!



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Organizational Behavior and Politics-Power…



Organizational Politics Power Politics

Power is not a thing or an act, but rather a resource, a capacity, a potential (pfeffer 1981)

Power is the capability of one social actor to overcome resistance in achieving a desired objective or result (pfeffer 1981)

If power is the resource, Politics is the act used to develop the resource




Managers have many tools; that is, skills, options, strategies and models; that they can use… Politics can be seen as just another tool.




Unitarists Vs Pluralists Morgan (1997) extrapolates on the idea of pluralism and argues

that organizations can be seen as political systems in which all people pursue their own interest.

The Unsettling notion of power and politics …Variation on cultures: people accepted and preferred large or small power differences between superiors and subordinates? (What about UK, Canada, USA, Australia)

Power implies dependence and politics implies manipulation.



Organizational Politics Basic assumptions

1. Pluralism and existence of multiple goals.

2. Resources are scarce…members will never be fully satisfied..

3. Impractically of the rational model of decision making

4. People will form coalitions and interest groups in order to control outcomes.



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We have to extend traditional notions of strategic change to include politics.



Political model of change Brislin (1991) provides a useful framework that

classifies political strategies and tactics in terms of their end objectives

Strategies for gaining support Strategies for dealing with opponents

Relation with change Management



Using Politics In strategic Change In change we need a collection of individuals

who have very widely differing interests. There are many well established power bases

that need to be jolted out of their inertia Immediate changes To make confliction ….



Conclusion People have no problem with change but with

being changed! ..The Importance of OB in Change.

Making Change Sustainable. Changing Attitudes. The Importance of Politics in the modern

world. Using Politics in strategic change. For gaining

support and dealing with opponents


The Only Constant is Change …

Question?

References:

1. Dianne Lewis, The Place of Organizational Politics in Strategic Change. 2002 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

2. Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner (Editor), Charlotte Roberts, George Roth, Rick Ross, The Dance of Change, 1999, Doubleday

3. Bernard Burnes, Managing Change, third edition, 2000, Prentice Hall

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