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Organizational Misbehaviour
From `soldiering′ and absenteeism to humour in organizations and the emergence politics of sexuality, this book explores the latest forms of organizational subversion and offers fresh insights of the underlying dynamics of management and organizational processes. The book opens with a critique of orthodox organizational analysis and maps out the wide terrain across which organizational `misbehaviour′ occurs. The authors go on to examine the interconnections between identity formation, the pursuit of autonomy and organizational misbehaviour, and explore how clearly the tendency to misbehave is deeply embedded in organizational life.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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October 30, 2014
For those interested, as with all non-fiction, there is a summary of sorts in my reading progress notes.
About the book, one one hand, I think the content is pertinent - with all my student expertise, yes. Some of the information inside is quite interesting, though I'd like to see less of the Socratic method and more what-if's and maybe-this-could-ameliorate's, some solution and a strategy or two.
On the other hand...
I've read bigger
But look at this:
"The capacity for self-organization of this kind originates from a number of sources and mediates different impulses."
This sentence is one among many that tells me nothing about the subject, except that, like all things human, it's vast, complex and depends on numerous variables.
"In order to describe the expression of self-organization more adequately, we shall develop ideas contained in the best of the existing literature."
Or, the short version: "In the work of so-and-so and so-and-so, self-organisation..."
I'd rather authors didn't feel the need to pad their books with such redundant writing, much like the young women stuff their bras... before settling down for some Uni reading, of course.
So the conclusion is: calm down, you're all pretty - so please cut the crap.
About the book, one one hand, I think the content is pertinent - with all my student expertise, yes. Some of the information inside is quite interesting, though I'd like to see less of the Socratic method and more what-if's and maybe-this-could-ameliorate's, some solution and a strategy or two.
On the other hand...
I've read bigger
But look at this:
"The capacity for self-organization of this kind originates from a number of sources and mediates different impulses."
This sentence is one among many that tells me nothing about the subject, except that, like all things human, it's vast, complex and depends on numerous variables.
"In order to describe the expression of self-organization more adequately, we shall develop ideas contained in the best of the existing literature."
Or, the short version: "In the work of so-and-so and so-and-so, self-organisation..."
I'd rather authors didn't feel the need to pad their books with such redundant writing, much like the young women stuff their bras... before settling down for some Uni reading, of course.
So the conclusion is: calm down, you're all pretty - so please cut the crap.
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