By Stephen Fineman; Yiannis Gabriel
Informed in the course of the clean, sharp eyes of recent organizational recruits, those occasionally comedian, frequently stressful, yet constantly brilliant and revealing debts of companies have a lot to assert to newcomers and outdated arms alike. Grouped in sections on 'images', 'winning and wasting' and 'survival and injuries', the narratives surround a large gamut of topics and concerns. those comprise strength and politics in organizations;
Throughout, commentaries via Fineman and Gabriel spotlight specific issues of research and studying, whereas every one bankruptcy concludes with questions for dialogue, and a particular bibliography permitting additional studying. this can be a superb source for college kids of organizational behaviour and conception, organizational and occupational psychology, and normal administration studies. Read more...
content material: 1. photographs and mirages --
2. functionality and impressions --
three. purple tape --
four. services and ceremonies --
five. The gods --
6. Winners and losers --
7. Compliance and resistance --
eight. video games --
nine. Who will get the blame? --
10. Networks and empires --
eleven. In on the deep finish --
12. at the back of closed doorways --
thirteen. accidents and insults --
14. Sexual harassment --
15. Surviving.
summary: advised in the course of the clean, sharp eyes of recent organizational recruits, those occasionally comedian, frequently worrying, yet continually vibrant and revealing money owed of firms have a lot to claim to inexperienced persons and previous palms alike. Grouped in sections on 'images', 'winning and wasting' and 'survival and injuries', the narratives surround a large gamut of topics and concerns. those comprise strength and politics in businesses; organizational cultures and alter; gender and discrimination; appearances and 'realities'; leaders and fans; and emotion, motivation and rigidity. We additionally come upon the coldly aggressive beneficial properties of companies the place techniques corresponding to restructuring, clarification and downsizing are more and more commonplace.
Throughout, commentaries via Fineman and Gabriel spotlight specific issues of research and studying, whereas each one bankruptcy concludes with questions for dialogue, and a particular bibliography permitting extra interpreting. this can be an exceptional source for college kids of organizational behaviour and idea, organizational and occupational psychology, and basic administration experiences
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A number of neo-Marxist theorists have developed theories of resistance, sometimes drawing on Foucault's work, according to which organizational subordinates can find more or less indirect ways of contesting, undermining or evading control mechanisms, such as those embodied in rules and regulations. (See Knights and Willmott 1990; Jermier et al. ) According to these arguments, there are instances when organizational red tape (such as that encountered in this chapter) is neither a dysfunction of bureaucracy nor a smoke-screen for management control but Copyrighted Material Red tape 47 rather an attempt by subordinates to reclaim some control through excessive or ritualistic adherence to rules and procedures.
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