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Liquid Organization Zygmunt Bauman and Organization Theory

244 Pages

by Routledge

244 Pages

by Routledge

244 Pages

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Widely known as a leading intellectual, Zygmunt Bauman’s thinking is often categorized as sociology or philosophy. But his work has been hugely influential in other fields as well, not least within organization studies. From increasing management control and growing standardization of work activities, to the increase in uncertainty and insecurity experienced by contemporary workers, organizations... Read more

Preface (Zygmunt Bauman) Towards sociological compassion: An introduction (Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera) 1. On adiaphoric organizations and adiaphoric organizational members (Tommy Jensen) 2. Liquid modernity, the Owl of Minerva, and technologies of the emotional self (Stewart Clegg and Carmen Baumeler) 3. Life in the liquid organization: Control and ambiguity in organizational experience (Jerzy Kociatkiewicz) 4. Consuming work: Aestheticization and the liquid employee (Samantha Warren) 5. Liquid collaboration (Dariusz Jemielniak and Tomasz Raburski) 6. Liquid university (Roman Batko) 7. On fluidity and flow in the networked space of human service organizations: Understanding liquidity and organized welfare praxis (Michael Wearing and Mark Hughes) 8. Liquid times for the entrepreneurial identity non-profit organization (David Boje, Melissa Cast, and Rohny Saylors) 9. Transcending liquidity: Towards a new embeddedness (Michal Izak) 10. Liquid responsibility: Ambivalence and professional judgement in organizations (Michel Fortier and Marie-Noëlle Albert) 11. How to regain trust, if it is at all possible? (Barbara Czarniawska and Rolf Solli) 12. A paradoxical attempt to freeze liquid modernity by liquidity: The return of fate (Peter Pelzer)