Authority and autonomy[electronic re...
Ekman, Susanne.

 

  • Authority and autonomy[electronic resource]paradoxes in modern knowledge work /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 658.4038
    書名/作者: Authority and autonomy : paradoxes in modern knowledge work // Susanne Ekman.
    作者: Ekman, Susanne.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (vii, 253 p.)
    標題: Knowledge management.
    標題: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management
    標題: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Knowledge Capital
    ISBN: 9781137272881 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137272880 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.
    內容註: Desire, Discovery, and Disillusionment in Modern Working Life -- Affective Labor and Post-bureaucracy -- Setting the Scene - Analytics of Compassion -- Methods : The Solidarity of Detachment -- Contractuality and Authenticity : the Dual Discourses about Work -- Captain or Comrade : What Employees Expect from their Managers -- Predictable or Pioneering : What Managers Expect of Employees -- Coping with Contradictions - Tensions, Double Binds and Hybrids -- Conclusion -- Shaking Analytical Habits : an Empirical Quest for Compassion -- Appendix -- Methodological Details.
    摘要、提要註: Authority and Autonomy invites you on an ethnographic journey into the heart of creative knowledge work. Based on detailed and vivid examples, it analyses the concept of work entertained by employees in these companies. It shows the existence of fairly contradictory ideals: classical bureaucratic and professional virtues, and ideals drawing on late modern values about self-realization, authenticity and limitless exploration. The same set of contradictory values is carried into the hierarchical dynamics, as managers and employees make unpredictable shifts in their expectations towards one another. Without signaling or even reflecting on the shifts, managers and employees jump back and forth between norms about authority, order-giving and hierarchy on the one hand, and autonomy, dialogue and self-direction on the other. These unpredictable shifts give rise to volatile conflicts, but also to intense mutual fantasies and passion. The author argues that this paradoxical environment in knowledge organizations has become more or less inevitable due to the high-velocity, growth-driven market. Furthermore, she highlights both the risks and gains associated with paradoxical environments and how it is important that we look at both.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137272881
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