
Liquid Organization
Zygmunt Bauman and Organization Theory
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-032-92551-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 themselves are becoming ever more ephemeral entities. Bauman's themes: globalization, liquid modernity and postmodern ethics are arguably fundamental to contemporary notions of organization and management and his thinking has never been more relevant.
However, despite the obvious and continuing influence of Bauman's ideas on business studies, there has been no comprehensive attempt to chart his impact on organization theory. In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".
The book will be essential reading for scholars and academics and students in management and organizational theory, and also sociology, managing culture and organizational ethnography.
However, despite the obvious and continuing influence of Bauman's ideas on business studies, there has been no comprehensive attempt to chart his impact on organization theory. In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".
The book will be essential reading for scholars and academics and students in management and organizational theory, and also sociology, managing culture and organizational ethnography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-92551-6 (9781032925516)
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Persons
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Sheffield, UK
Monika Kostera is Professor and Chair in Management at the University of Warsaw, Poland
Monika Kostera is Professor and Chair in Management at the University of Warsaw, Poland
Content
Towards sociological compassion: An introduction 1. On adiaphoric organizations and adiaphoric organizational members 2. Liquid modernity, the Owl of Minerva, and technologies of the emotional self 3. Life in the liquid organization: Control and ambiguity in organizational experience 4. Consuming work: Aestheticization and the liquid employee 5. Liquid collaboration 6. Liquid university 7. On fluidity and flow in the networked space of human service organizations: Understanding liquidity and organized welfare praxis 8. Liquid times for the entrepreneurial identity non-profit organization 9. Transcending liquidity: Towards a new embeddedness 10. Liquid responsibility: Ambivalence and professional judgement in organizations 11. How to regain trust, if it is at all possible? 12. A paradoxical attempt to freeze liquid modernity by liquidity: The return of fate