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<li>What do recent management fads and fashions have in common?</li> <li>What are the implications and limitations of the prescriptions on offer for people's working lives?</li>
</ul> Managerial fads and fashions, guru panaceas and organisational innovations have proliferated over the last 20 years. Drawing on case studies from the UK manufacturing and financial service sectors, this book argues that the emergence and popularity of a new range of management innovations reflects and facilitates the reproduction of a neo-liberal economics that has dominated Western politics for over almost a quarter of a century. The book contends that current management thinking around 'new' forms of work organization is immersed in a contemporary version of the American Dream. Referring to empirical research, the authors identify numerous difficulties confronting the implementation of this discourse, including: <ul>
<li>Collective and individual forms of resistance</li> <li>Unintended consequences and contradictory tensions around the notions of autonomy versus control</li> <li>Individualism versus collectivism</li> <li>Insecurity versus commitment</li> <li>Quality versus quantity. </li>
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Organization and Innovation concludes that the contemporary American Dream offers only 'one' dream of a better tomorrow and offers a powerful argument that we should seek other dreams that question rather than simply legitimise current inequalities.

Organization and Innovation

Business & Money

Knights, David

McCabe, Darren

Management & Leadership

Open University Press

Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities (Routledge Studies in Leadership Research)

Business Culture

Routledge

Despite the introduction of anti-discrimination legislation and significant changes in the nature of gender relations throughout the 20th century, men and women continue to be segregated into different kinds of jobs within the UK labour market. This book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the ways in which sex discrimination can be reproduced within the recruitment process. It also examines the rationalization provided by those who perpetrate these unlawful practices and some of the forms of resistance which can be mobilized in order to challenge and even eliminate sex discrimination. "Managing to discriminate" is a theoretical development of a research project sponsored by the Equal Opportunities Commission designed to examine whether, and if so how, the recruitment process can contribute to the continuation of gender divisions and inequalities in employment. The EOC was acutely aware of the absence of evidence concerning the specific methods and procedures or organizational recruitment and of the particular ways in which sex discrimination could characterize this process. The recruitment process is especially vague, nebulous, and indeterminate and can be shrouded in secrecy. Equally, since sex discrimination is illegal, its observation can be very difficult. By examining particular recruitment exercises as they actually happened, and at every stage of their process, this book presents rich, detailed qualitative material that makes it a landmark in the research of the recruitment process and sex discrimination in employment.

Managing To Discriminate

Collinson, Margaret

Collinson, David L.

Are conflict and struggle at work as normal as compliance and consent? Contributors in this volume argue that they are. A wide range of passive and active, subtle and covert resistance practices are examined from diverse contexts. These include factory workers, women and minorities, farmers and even managers. International in focus, presenting original research supported by case-study material, this volume begins to redress the often cited neglect of workplace resistance. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of organizational sociology, organizational behaviour and industrial relations.

Resistance and Power in Organizations (Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization)

Jermier, John M.

Cengage Learning EMEA

Identifies and analyzes the social, political and problematic nature of systems and the use of IT in contemporary society. Considers the growing complexity of IT management issues, the changing profiles and organization of the IS profession and the dominant rise of a user relations problem within modern systems development. Features a detailed, case study of a major systems project--from the early decisions involving desirability and design to launch and initial assessment. Analyzes the shift from a technological-led to a strategic and marketing-led use of IT.

Managers Divided: Organisation Politics and Information Technology Management

Murray, Fergus

wiley

Job Redesign: Critical Perspectives on the Labour Process

Willmott, Hugh

Gower Pub.Co.

Collinson, David

Managing the Labour Process

Management, Organization and Masculinity

Management, Organization and Masculinity provides a thorough understanding of the influence of gender in the workplace.  Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights consider the interconnections between masculinity, management, organization and work. They show how contemporary management and organizational practices still exhibit forms of behaviour that may be characterised as masculine; bring together literature from feminist discourse and organizational and management studies; and explore concepts and ideas which may account for both the management of individual masculinities at a personal level and the reproduction of masculinities at organizational level.

Kerfoot, Deborah

Sage Publications Ltd.

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