Rhetoric and the Politics of Workplace Innovation
Struggling with Empowerment and Modernization
Published on 30. August 2013
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-85793-000-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a critical insight into the ongoing debates and controversies that surround employee empowerment and workplace innovation. It highlights competing interests and conflicting values, and illuminates some basic tensions between confident rhetoric and everyday realities.
Martin Beirne's contribution marks a contrast with established academic investigations in this area. It combines sober analysis with advocacy to claim space for a research-based activism among coalitions of critical researchers and like-minded practitioners that can anticipate and promote genuinely enriching and empowering ways of managing and organizing work.
Advanced students of management and organization will discover an invaluable, thought-provoking resource. It offers fresh insights, stimulating arguments and applied knowledge that will also appeal to managers with responsibility for work and employee relations, and to educators and researchers in the areas of critical management studies, work and employment.
Contents:
Foreword
Foreword to Empowerment and Innovation
1. Perspectives on Empowerment and Progressive Change at Work
Part I: Contemporary Developments
2. Progressive Teamworking: Disputes, Promise and Practicalities
3. Technology and User Empowerment
4. Financial Participation
5. Gender and Empowerment
6. Culture, Management and Innovation
Part II: Enabling, Enacting and Regulating
7. Sustaining a Voluntary Commitment
8. Public Policy and Regulatory Initiatives
References
Index
Martin Beirne's contribution marks a contrast with established academic investigations in this area. It combines sober analysis with advocacy to claim space for a research-based activism among coalitions of critical researchers and like-minded practitioners that can anticipate and promote genuinely enriching and empowering ways of managing and organizing work.
Advanced students of management and organization will discover an invaluable, thought-provoking resource. It offers fresh insights, stimulating arguments and applied knowledge that will also appeal to managers with responsibility for work and employee relations, and to educators and researchers in the areas of critical management studies, work and employment.
Contents:
Foreword
Foreword to Empowerment and Innovation
1. Perspectives on Empowerment and Progressive Change at Work
Part I: Contemporary Developments
2. Progressive Teamworking: Disputes, Promise and Practicalities
3. Technology and User Empowerment
4. Financial Participation
5. Gender and Empowerment
6. Culture, Management and Innovation
Part II: Enabling, Enacting and Regulating
7. Sustaining a Voluntary Commitment
8. Public Policy and Regulatory Initiatives
References
Index
Reviews / Votes
'This book provides insight into the ongoing controversies revolving around employee empowerment and workplace innovation, it discusses common tensions between confident rhetoric and daily realities, and it provides an in-depth analysis of employee interpretations and reactions, the culture and structure of struggle and management, and much more. College-level audiences will find this no casual read, but an in-depth survey that covers all the basic conflicts of politics and rhetoric with an analysis of how it operates in the workplace.'--Midwest Book Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85793-000-2 (9780857930002)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Martin Beirne, Formerly Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
Content
Contents: Foreword Foreword to Empowerment and Innovation 1. Perspectives on Empowerment and Progressive Change at Work Part I: Contemporary Developments 2. Progressive Teamworking: Disputes, Promise and Practicalities 3. Technology and User Empowerment 4. Financial Participation 5. Gender and Empowerment 6. Culture, Management and Innovation Part II: Enabling, Enacting and Regulating 7. Sustaining a Voluntary Commitment 8. Public Policy and Regulatory Initiatives References Index