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Organisational politics: the missing discipline of management?

David Butcher (David Butcher is a Senior Lecturer in Management Development and Director, General Management Development Programmes, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK)
Martin Clarke (Martin Clarke is a Lecturer in Management Development and a Programme Director of the General Management Development Programmes, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK)

Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN: 0019-7858

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

Traditional approaches to the management of change are failing to produce lasting benefit and are more likely to engender demotivation and feelings of insecurity than tightly integrated and focused strategy implementation. These traditional approaches seldom take full account of the positive role of political fluency in the effective management of such change. This paper examines this political dimension for a collection of senior managers implementing change following two intensive public management development programmes. The findings show that managing political agendas was central to their success in making things happen and therefore postulates whether political awareness should be taught as a mainstream management discipline.

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Butcher, D. and Clarke, M. (1999), "Organisational politics: the missing discipline of management?", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197859910253100

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