ISBN:
0803975465
,
0803975473
,
9780803975460
,
9780803975477
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 246 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Foucault, Management and Organization Theory : From Panopticon to Technologies of Self
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Foucault, Michel
;
Organization
;
Management
Abstract:
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 disciplin
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; 1 - Managing Foucault: Foucault, Management and Organization Theory; Part I: Foucault and Organization Theory; 2 - Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: The Contribution of Michel Foucault; 3 - Foucault, Power and Organizations; 4 - Labour as Dressage; Part II: Constructing the Modern Organization; 5 - Discipline, Surveillance and the 'Career': Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914; 6 - Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management: Inverting Understanding of 'the Economic'
Description / Table of Contents:
7 - The 'Velvety Grip': Managing Managers in teh Modern Corporation8 - Management Accounting Numbers: Freedom or Prison - Geneen versus Foucault; Part III: (Re)Constructing the Modern Organization; 9 - Discursive Formations, Strategized Subordination and Self-Surveillance; 10 - Through the Looking Glass: Foucault and the Politics of Production; 11 - Beyond Good and Evil: Depth and Division in the Management of Human Resources; 12 - Re-Framing Foucault: The Case of Performance Appraisal; 13 - Afterword: Deconstructing Organization - Discipline and Desire; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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