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Postmodern Management And Organization Theory
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Author : David Boje
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1996
Postmodern Management And Organization Theory written by David Boje and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
"This excellent, pioneering book is a must-read as we enter the new millennium." --David J. Farmer, State University of New York Comprehensive and timely, Postmodern Management and Organization Theory provides a critique of postmodern theory as it stands today. The text gives an overview of issues as they relate to management and organization theory and its history and assembles in one volume a variety of important works on postmodern philosophy--including feminist, cultural, and environmental philosophies. The contributors address the future of postmodern advancement in management and organization theory and method, establishing an agenda for future research. This thought-provoking book will be useful to scholars, researchers and upper-level students in organization theory, organization behavior and change, management, and industrial psychology.
Postmodern Management Theory
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Author : Marta B. Calás
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-24
Postmodern Management Theory written by Marta B. Calás and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-24 with Business & Economics categories.
First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity? Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s. For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices. Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.
Postmodern Management And Organization Theory
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language : en
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Release Date : 1996
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Postmodern Management
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Author : William M. Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1998-04-30
Postmodern Management written by William M. Wallace and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Postmodern management, according to Wallace, moves beyond the shortcomings of the bureaucratic management style pervasive in American business today. Bureaucracy, the standard model of organizations, is too inflexible, cost-rigid and job defensive to survive in a postmodern world. Bureaucracies rely on paying workers rigid rates to do specific jobs. According to a postmodern management model, a partnership between employees and stockholders would lead to more productive work by relating pay to corporate performance and by encouraging more flexible and cooperative teamwork. Wallace provides a workable guideline to ease the transition from the bureaucratic form of structure to postmodern partnership. His argument, that dependence on hired labor for permanent staff is at the root of dysfunctional bureaucracy, will provoke discussion and interest among corporate executives, teachers and students of management and organizational behavior, and others interested in today's workplace. Wallace begins with a history of how bureaucracy first arose as a natural response to coercive work. He explains why the mechanistic model of business bureaucracy took root in Britain and America, and then looks at the major problems of bureaucracies, such as job defensiveness, over-staffing, over-regulation, and other excesses endemic to most bureaucracies. Exploring the consequences of the bureaucratic model on the economy, Wallace shows how the rigid labor costs played a role in causing the Great Depression. Wallace then turns to corporate partnership—its employment policies and why they dissolve the incentives to over-staff, over-layer, and over-regulate, and why partners will strive to downsize. Using examples from the past and present, he examines the difficult issues of transition from bureaucracy to partnership.
Postmodern Management And Organization
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
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Postmodern Management
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Author : William McDonald Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Information Age Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-06
Postmodern Management written by William McDonald Wallace and has been published by Information Age Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with Business & Economics categories.
Postmodern management, according to Wallace, moves beyond the shortcomings of the bureaucratic management style in American business. Bureaucracy is too inflexible, cost-rigid and job defensive to survive in a postmodern world. Wallace provides guidelines to ease the transition from the bureaucratic form of structure to postmodern partnership.
Managing In The Postmodern World
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Author : David M. Boje
language : en
Publisher: Information Age Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-03-01
Managing In The Postmodern World written by David M. Boje and has been published by Information Age Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Americas Revolution Against Exploitation The book suggests that these postmodern times may well pass by America, that it will be stymied by the legacies of a post-industrialism in which a form of power/knowledge was institutionalized in corporate embodiments swollen with the bureaucratized complacency that defense-related contracting induced in organizations remote from competitive struggle in a consumer market-place. It is now clear that the post-industrial society was a knowledge-based society shaped by the requirements of the Cold War and the warfare state. It was these which materialized the shift in organizational social relations from an industrial epoch founded on exploitation to one in which value be- came increasingly fused within the unity of power/knowledge condensed within the global, bureaucratic, corporate frame. America won the Cold War but is clearly in danger of losing the aftermath, not to the old adversaries, but to nations which were not even admitted to the Cold War game as equal players: most noticeably Japan, but also Germany, the powerhouse at the center of the European Community, as well as the Newly-Industrializing Countries of East Asia. Statutorily, of course, the first two were not allowed to, play as part of the Cold War settlement at Yalta. Exclusion spawned different strategies premised on structures which were and had always been institution ally distinct. What is to be done? Boje and Dennehy are quite clear: first, there has to be a realization that the recipes of modernism were epoch or era specific and may be past their use-by date in some areas of organizational life. Second, that for as long as the lenses through which we focus on organizationallife are made to modernist specifications, so that they focus on variables such as formalization, standardization, centralization, etc., as the strategic focus for research and teaching, we will be condemned to doing the time-warp over and over again, stuck in the modernist frame while the spectacle outside turns ever more postmodern. Third, that postmodernism offers an integrative focus which will aid us as teachers, students, researchers and practitioners in overcoming the excessive differentiation which has fragmented our intellectual and praxeological communities. Fourth, that in doing so it will serve to re-vitalize the study of management and organizations by opening it up to the cutting-edge of contemporary social science currents. If the hypotheses and argument that the authors advance are substantially correct, then we stand at one of those moments in history when the urge to resist and understand the limitations of the old slogans is critical. Americas Revolution Against Exploitation: The Story of Postmodern Management achieves this resistance and this understanding sufficiently to reconfigure our grasp of the modern condition in which we have been while pointing us towards what we may become. One should salute the book as a contribution to one of the projects for the future, one which, because of its easy style, deserves to secure postmodernism a good name in management and organization theory circles.
Work Postmodernism And Organization
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Author : Philip Hancock
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-01-22
Work Postmodernism And Organization written by Philip Hancock and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business, management and sociology courses.
Postmodern Management Theory
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Author : Faramarz Nateghian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Postmodern Management Theory written by Faramarz Nateghian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Nateghian's study focuses on a comprehensive investigation of the modernist management theories that have dominated the fields of organizational and management science for decades. He contends that these theories no longer address all of the issues facing managers today and examines the reasons for their demise. A subsequent inquiry for an alternative management theory is conducted in his research which is formulated as postmodern management theory. This theory incorporates postmodern discourse, systems thinking, psychology, feminism, and culture, along with operations research and artificial intelligence methodologies to increase the effectiveness of present and future manufacturing organizations.
Modern Organizations
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Author : Stewart Clegg
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1990-09-05
Modern Organizations written by Stewart Clegg and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-05 with Social Science categories.
This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist. Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and `post-Confucian' Asian enterprises - he argues that their success cannot be reduced to `culture' but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organi