Organizational Analysis

CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION THEORY 1 Introduction 1 Reading 1.1: Studying Organizations 4 Reading 1.2: Accounts of Organizations: Organizational 'Structures' and the Accounting Process 8 Reading 1.3: Organization Theory as Critical Science? 11 Discussion Questions 15 Introduction Reference 15 Recommended Further Readings 15 CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZING 17 Introduction 17 Reading 2.1: Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 20 Reading 2.2: Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing 26 Reading 2.3: Managers Divided: Organizational Politics and IT Management 33 Discussion Questions 37 Recommended Further Readings 37 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING 39 Introduction 39 Reading 3.1: Introducing Critical Theory to Management: Management in Critical Perspective 43 Reading 3.2: Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers 47 Reading 3.3: How do Managers Think? Identity, Morality and Pragmatism in Managerial Theory and Practice 49 Reading 3.4: Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control and Subjectivity 53 Discussion Questions 57 Introduction References 57 Recommended Further Readings 57 CHAPTER 4 STRATEGY 59 Introduction 59 Reading 4.1: The Work of Strategizing and Organizing: For a Practice Perspective 62 Reading 4.2: Post-processual Challenges for the Emerging Strategy-as- Practice Perspective: Discovering Strategy in the Logic of Practice 67 Reading 4.3: Critical Approaches to Strategic Management 70 Reading 4.4: Corporate Strategy, Organizations and Subjectivity: A Critique 78 Discussion Questions 81 Introduction References 81 Recommended Further Readings 82 CHAPTER 5 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND INNOVATION 83 Introduction 83 Reading 5.1: Manufacturing Consent 86 Reading 5.2: Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams 89 Reading 5.3: Tales of the Unexpected: Strategic Management and Innovation and Dreams and Designs on Strategy: A Critical Analysis of TQM and Management Control 92 Reading 5.4: Belonging on the Move: Market Rhetoric and the Future as Obligatory Passage 96 Discussion Questions 102 Introduction References 103 Recommended Further Readings 103 CHAPTER 6 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 105 Introduction 105 Reading 6.1: Human Resource Management ' Rhetorics and Realities 109 Reading 6.2: Planning for Personnel? HRM Reconsidered 112 Reading 6.3: Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and its Relevance for Human Resource Management 117 Reading 6.4: Developing a Tactical Approach to Engaging with 'Strategic' HRM 118 Discussion Questions 121 Introduction References 121 Recommended Further Readings 121 CHAPTER 7 LEADERSHIP AND SYMBOLISM 123 Introduction 123 Reading 7.1: Conceptualizing Leadership Processes: A Study of Senior Managers in a Financial Services Company 127 Reading 7.2: Leadership and the Management of Meaning 132 Reading 7.3: Symbols and Symbolic Behaviour: Definitions and Distinctions 136 Discussion Questions 138 Introduction References 138 Recommended Further Readings 138 CHAPTER 8 POWER, CONTROL AND RESISTANCE 141 Introduction 141 Reading 8.1: Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the 20th Century 145 Reading 8.2: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations 146 Reading 8.3: Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace 150 Reading 8.4: Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That 153 Discussion Questions 157 Introduction References 157 Recommended Further Readings 157 CHAPTER 9 TECHNOLOGY 159 Introduction 159 Reading 9.1: Introduction: Understanding Innovation, Organizational Change and Technology 161 Reading 9.2: Caught in the Wheels: The High Cost of Being a Female Cog in the Male Machinery of Engineering 164 Reading 9.3: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power 166 Reading 9.4: Formal Organization as Representation: Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation 168 Reading 9.5: Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the E-economy 170 Discussion Questions 175 Introduction References 175 Recommended Further Readings 175 CHAPTER