Managing Intensity and Play at Work: Transient Relationships - Hardcover

Andersen, Niels Åkerstrøm

 
9781782545958: Managing Intensity and Play at Work: Transient Relationships
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1782545956 ISBN 13: 9781782545958
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

What does it mean to organize when the only established premise is that everything is transient? How is it possible for an organization to manage expectations based on the expectation of the unexpected?

In this thought-provoking book Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen uses a unique combination of deconstruction, systems theory and discourse theory to critically discuss topics such as the management of feelings, partnerships as second order promises, and work-life balance as an immune defense against over-socialized employees. He assesses the parallels between layoffs in intimate organizations and modern professional divorce discourses, and explores the dichotomy of double-bounded management commanding both 'do as I say' and 'be autonomous'. In so doing, Professor Andersen encourages the reader to look at relationships in the workplace in new ways.

This unique book will prove invaluable for academics and students of human resource management, organizational behavior and critical management studies.

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About the Author

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1782545956
ISBN 13 
9781782545958
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288

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