Tag: Organizational Change Videos

  • Organizational Change – YouTube Playlist

    Organizational Change – YouTube Playlist

    Introduction

    (updated 05/12/25)

    This organizational change YouTube lockdown playlist has featured my highly opinionated reviews of organizational change literature. If nothing else, I have enjoyed the distraction of this creative process. Critical thinking primarily informs my review choices rather than my reviews. I concentrate on the literature that I appreciate and I celebrate that literature, rather than objectively reviewing it. There are some critical reviews, but the ‘dodgy’ organizational change literature doesn’t really merit the time and energy it takes to create a video.

    This post lists all of the videos that I produced. I am not going to embed all videos into this post. I have embedded the final two videos and included a short commentary. I enjoyed the creativity of making these videos; filming, editing and uploading proved to be a fascinating learning curve.

    Organizational Change YouTube Playlist

    Videos Listing

    1. Introduction to the OCRD playlist.
    2. The Dynamics of Planned Change. (Lippitt, Watson and Westley, 1958).
    3. Politics of change: The discourses that inform organizational change and their capacity to silence. (McMillan, 2016)
    4. Upbeat leadership: A recipe for – or against – “successful” leadership theory. (Alvesson, 2020)
    5. Chapter (8) ‘Leading Change’ in A handbook for leaders in higher education: Transforming teaching and learning. (Marshall, 2016)
    6. Organizational Silence in the NHS: ‘Hear no, See no, Speak no’. (Pope, 2019)
    7. Philosophies of Organizational Change. (Smith and Graetz, 2011)
    8. Success or failure? Making sense of outcomes in a public sector change project. (Hagebakken, Olsen and Solstad)
    9. Leaders and managers: Are they different. (Zaleznik, 1977)
    10. The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective (Tourish, 2013)

    My most critical video. Many academics still cite this 1977 magazine article when they are attempting to encourage a differentiation between managers and leaders. If you watch the video, you will see why I am suspicious about this encouragement.

    Celebrating one of my favourite contributions to the leading organizational change and transformation debate.

    Organizational Change: YouTube Playlist
  • Woodland Decay Broadcasting

    Woodland Decay Broadcasting

    Woodland Decay Broadcasting, pretentious nonsense, or postmodern parody, I am really not sure. The plan in the summer of 2019 was a simple one. After 32 years working at Brighton Business School, in later years as a Reader in Organizational Change, I would take a year out. My thinking was that I would rest my body, mind and soul and then in the summer of 2020 take on a part-time academic role, perhaps doing some talks and ad-hoc occasional workshops, nice!

    As we now know the world changed in 2020 and my simple plan seemed far less feasible. I was being challenged by changes in the wider environment to change – oh the irony. I’d enjoyed the honest toil of gardening and DiY and part of me wanted to carry on gardening. I am not sure if it is the lockdown mentality that has been culturally engineered, but I had also lost my enthusiasm to travel and visit organizations (hopefully it will return).

    As a teenager in the seventies, punk rock had a big influence upon me. The ethos was that anyone could make music, regardless of ability or resources. I was surprised how I could publish books using Kindle Direct Publishing without any expenditure and YouTube could be used in a similar way. The learning curve for these creative enterprises has frustrated me at times, but also it has energized me.

    A listing of the videos on the Organizational Change Review Desk playlist on You Tube is available on this post.

    https://woodlanddecay.com/2020/09/30/organizational-change-review-desk-youtube-playlist-updated-30-09-20/