Authority and Autonomy

Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work

Susanne Ekman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-34822-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Zusatzinfo	VII, 253 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-230-34822-X / 023034822X
ISBN-13	978-0-230-34822-6 / 9780230348226
Zustand	Neuware