CiNii Books - Organizational analysis : essential readings

Comprehensively encompassing all topics within the area of organizational analysis, this book provides key readings which complement the study of organizations and organizational theory. David Knights and Hugh Willmott s carefully chosen readings are always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial. Classic articles as well as more recent pieces are included. As a whole, this book reflects the significant shifts emerging in organization theory today and will help familiarise the student with the competing paradigms central to the study of organizations. Subjects covered include traditional topics such as leadership, strategy and human resource management, as well as emergent areas such as consumption, diversity, environment and globalization. Organizational Analysis will help students learn how to critically analyse original sources and will expand their knowledge of the subject. It is an ideal point of reference for further reading. A complete list of contributors to the essential readings is available at www.cengage.co.uk/knights.

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CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION THEORY 1 Introduction 1 Reading 1.1: Studying Organizations 4 Reading 1.2: Accounts of Organizations: Organizational Structures and the Accounting Process 8 Reading 1.3: Organization Theory as Critical Science? 11 Discussion Questions 15 Introduction Reference 15 Recommended Further Readings 15 CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZING 17 Introduction 17 Reading 2.1: Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 20 Reading 2.2: Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing 26 Reading 2.3: Managers Divided: Organizational Politics and IT Management 33 Discussion Questions 37 Recommended Further Readings 37 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING 39 Introduction 39 Reading 3.1: Introducing Critical Theory to Management: Management in Critical Perspective 43 Reading 3.2: Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers 47 Reading 3.3: How do Managers Think? Identity, Morality and Pragmatism in Managerial Theory and Practice 49 Reading 3.4: Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control and Subjectivity 53 Discussion Questions 57 Introduction References 57 Recommended Further Readings 57 CHAPTER 4 STRATEGY 59 Introduction 59 Reading 4.1: The Work of Strategizing and Organizing: For a Practice Perspective 62 Reading 4.2: Post-processual Challenges for the Emerging Strategy-as- Practice Perspective: Discovering Strategy in the Logic of Practice 67 Reading 4.3: Critical Approaches to Strategic Management 70 Reading 4.4: Corporate Strategy, Organizations and Subjectivity: A Critique 78 Discussion Questions 81 Introduction References 81 Recommended Further Readings 82 CHAPTER 5 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND INNOVATION 83 Introduction 83 Reading 5.1: Manufacturing Consent 86 Reading 5.2: Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams 89 Reading 5.3: Tales of the Unexpected: Strategic Management and Innovation and Dreams and Designs on Strategy: A Critical Analysis of TQM and Management Control 92 Reading 5.4: Belonging on the Move: Market Rhetoric and the Future as Obligatory Passage 96 Discussion Questions 102 Introduction References 103 Recommended Further Readings 103 CHAPTER 6 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 105 Introduction 105 Reading 6.1: Human Resource Management Rhetorics and Realities 109 Reading 6.2: Planning for Personnel? HRM Reconsidered 112 Reading 6.3: Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and its Relevance for Human Resource Management 117 Reading 6.4: Developing a Tactical Approach to Engaging with Strategic HRM 118 Discussion Questions 121 Introduction References 121 Recommended Further Readings 121 CHAPTER 7 LEADERSHIP AND SYMBOLISM 123 Introduction 123 Reading 7.1: Conceptualizing Leadership Processes: A Study of Senior Managers in a Financial Services Company 127 Reading 7.2: Leadership and the Management of Meaning 132 Reading 7.3: Symbols and Symbolic Behaviour: Definitions and Distinctions 136 Discussion Questions 138 Introduction References 138 Recommended Further Readings 138 CHAPTER 8 POWER, CONTROL AND RESISTANCE 141 Introduction 141 Reading 8.1: Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the 20th Century 145 Reading 8.2: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations 146 Reading 8.3: Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace 150 Reading 8.4: Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That 153 Discussion Questions 157 Introduction References 157 Recommended Further Readings 157 CHAPTER 9 TECHNOLOGY 159 Introduction 159 Reading 9.1: Introduction: Understanding Innovation, Organizational Change and Technology 161 Reading 9.2: Caught in the Wheels: The High Cost of Being a Female Cog in the Male Machinery of Engineering 164 Reading 9.3: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power 166 Reading 9.4: Formal Organization as Representation: Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation 168 Reading 9.5: Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the E-economy 170 Discussion Questions 175 Introduction References 175 Recommended Further Readings 175 CHAPTER 10 METHODOLOGY 177 Introduction 177 Reading 10.1: Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction 179 Reading 10. 2 : Doing Critical Management Research 181 Reading 10. 3 : Refocusing the Case Study: The Politics of Research and Researching Politics in IT Management 184 Reading 10. 4 : Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research 184 Reading 10. 5 : Coming to Terms with the Field: Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography 186 Reading 10. 6 : After Method 188 Reading 10. 7 : Manufacturing the Employee: Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries 190 Discussion Questions 193 Introduction References 193 Recommended Further Readings 193 CHAPTER 11 INEQUALITY AND DIVERSITY 195 Introduction 195 Reading 11. 1 : Deconstructing Organizational Taboos: The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations 199 Reading 11. 2 : The Best is Yet to Come? : Searching for Embodiment in Management 203 Reading 11.3: The Emperor has No Clothes: Rewriting Race in Organizations 206 Reading 11.4: The Hidden Injuries of Class 210 Discussion Questions 211 Introduction Reference 211 Recommended Further Readings 211 CHAPTER 12 IDENTITY 213 Introduction 213 Reading 12.1: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organisations 215 Reading 12.2: The Stakes 221 Reading 12.3: When the Sleeper Wakes: A Short Story Extending Themes in Radical Organization Theory 225 Discussion Questions 230 Introduction References 230 Recommended Further Readings 231 CHAPTER 13 CONSUMPTION 233 Introduction 233 Reading 13.1: From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption 236 Reading 13.2: Organisation Theory, Consumption and the Service Sector 241 Reading 13.3: Consumption and Identity at Work 244 Discussion Questions 248 Introduction References 248 Recommended Further Readings 249 CHAPTER 14 POSTMODERNISM 251 Introduction 251 Reading 14.1: Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction 254 Reading 14.2: Deconstructing Organizations 257 Reading 14.3: Organization Theory in the Age of Deconstruction: Dualism, Gender and Postmodernism Revisited 261 Discussion Questions 265 Introduction References 265 Recommended Further Readings 265 CHAPTER 15 CORPORATE ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY 267 Introduction 267 Reading 15. 1: Business, Ethics and Business Ethics: Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics 270 Reading 15. 2 : Limits to Anthropocentrism: Toward an Ecocentric Organization Paradigm? 273 Reading 15. 3 : Shifting Paradigms for Sustainable Development: Implications for Management Theory and Research 278 Discussion Questions 284 Recommended Further Readings 284 CHAPTER 16 GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 285 Introduction 285 Reading 16. 1 : Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism 288 Reading 16. 2 : Towards a Political Conception of Corporate Responsibility: Business and Society Seen From a Habermasian Perspective 293 Reading 16. 3 : Structures, Identities and Politics: Bringing Corporate Citizenship into the Corporation 301 Discussion Questions 303 Introduction References 304 Recommended Further Readings 304 INDEX 305

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