This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault′s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault′s contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power/knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device, a mechanism that seeks to alter rational choice rather than constrain bodies. This raises questions about Foucault′s linking of the modern organization′s birth with the enlightenment. Other contributions review the impact of totalizing managerial discourses and the limits and possiblities of resistance, and question the profound pessimism of Foucault. The volume concludes by examining the implications of Foucault′s later work in which he suggests that people are much freer than they feel.
Содержание
Managing Foucault — Alan Mc Kinlay and Ken Starkey
Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
PART ONE: FOUCAULT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis — Gibson Burrell
The Contribution of Michel Foucault
Foucault, Power and Organizations — Stewart Clegg
Labour as Dressage — Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATION
Discipline, Surveillance and the `Career′ — Mike Savage
Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914
Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management — Keith Hoskin
Inverting Understandings of `the Economic′
The `Velvet Grip′ — Alan Mc Kinlay and Ken Starkey
Managing Managers in the Modern Corporation
Management Accounting Numbers — Trevor Hopper and Norman Mc Intosh
Freedom or Prison — Geneen vs Foucault
PART THREE: (RE)CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATION
Discursive Formations, Strategized Subordination and Self-Surveillance — Stanley Deetz
Through the Looking Glass — Alan Mc Kinlay and Phil Taylor
Foucault and the Politics of Production
Beyond Good and Evil — Barbara Townley
Depth and Division in the Management of Human Resources
Re-Framing Foucault — Patricia Findlay and Tim Newton
The Case of Performance Appraisal
Afterword — Ken Starkey and Alan Mc Kinlay
Deconstructing Organization — Discipline and Desire