1st Edition

Hidden Attractions of Administration The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents

170 Pages 4 Color & 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 4 Color & 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner... Read more

1. Eigendynamik 

2. The administration society

3. Seductive gatherings

4. Sneaky work and aways

5. A spark of magic

6. Beauty and boost

7. Spirals of meetings and documents

8. Dramatizing administrative skills

9. Muddy transparency

10. The devotion to teaching

11. Magic, emotions, and morality

Biography

Malin Åkerström is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

Katarina Jacobsson is a professor of social work in the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden.

Erika Andersson Cederholm is an associate professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

David Wästerfors is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

'The theses presented in Hidden Attractions of Administration can be a mirror in which the actions of administration employees reflect in a real, attractive, and obvious way ... The book will certainly be interesting reading for all teachers, medical staff, social workers, managers, and so on, and students who will work in public administration institutions in the future.' - Beata Pawlowska, Symbolic Interaction