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Interpreting the Maternal Organization
Contributor(s): Höpfl, Heather (Editor), Kostera, Monika (Editor)
ISBN: 0415285747     ISBN-13: 9780415285742
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2002
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Annotation: This book examines the organization as embodied experience. An international range of contributors is assembled to deal explicitly with the 'maternal' aspects of organization.
This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing.
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Negotiating
- Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship
- Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior
Dewey: 302.35
LCCN: 2002068315
Lexile Measure: 1250
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.6" W x 9.24" (1.24 lbs) 264 pages
 
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Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to confront issues related to the dehumanization of organizations. This book brings these issues together, presenting an original construction of the organization via an emphasis on the (m)other.
This book is not a feminist tract, nor is it primarily about the experiences of women in organizations. It rather argues that conventional representations of the organization are patriarchal, masculine, directed by the animus and that such representations reduce the notion of 'organization' to abstract relationships, rational actions and purposive behaviour.
This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing.