Authority and Autonomy

Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34543-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekman, Susanne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Verhaltensökonomik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Introduction Desire, Discovery, and Disillusionment in Modern Working Life Affective Labor and Post-bureaucracy Setting the Scene - Analytics of Compassion Methods – The Solidarity of Detachment Contractuality and Authenticity – the Dual Discourses about Work Captain or Comrade – What Employees Expect from their Managers Predictable or Pioneering – What Managers Expect of Employees Coping with Contradictions - Tensions, Double Binds and Hybrids Conclusion Shaking Analytical Habits – an Empirical Quest for Compassion Appendix Methodological Details Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

SUSANNE EKMAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. She is primarily interested in the complex relationship between freedom and ethics and has recently pursued this issue ethnographically in the context of contemporary knowledge work.