This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power//knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a...
This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organi...
Organizational learning is a crucial factor in business success. This clear and concise book forms a complete guide to this subject, looking at how organizations learn as groups and highlighting the importance of managing a company's knowledge alongside its other resources. Now in its second edition, How Organizations Learn gathers key readings by renowned international authors and gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic, helping them to understand and manage the challenge of organizational learning. Issues covered include: The link between leadership and learningThe impact of...
Organizational learning is a crucial factor in business success. This clear and concise book forms a complete guide to this subject, looking at how or...
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola promoted amongst its employees, how employees adapted to managerial changes, specifically the elimination of large-scale management, and where the managerless system came under strain. This book will be of essential reading for researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates interested...
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-d...
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault s suggestion of a new concept, governmentality . The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through which and by which power is exercised. The appeal of governmentality is that, whether we are considering the workplace, the school or welfare regimes, it opens up new ways of looking at familiar institutions.
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucault s concept of...
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault s suggestion of a new concept, governmentality . The di...
