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People''s work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still, little is currently known about how such attitudes are distributed among different countries, men and women, classes, occupations, age groups and so on. Even less is known about how work orientations have changed during the dramatic social transformations of economies and labour markets during recent decades. What happened, for example, to work orientations in Iceland when the country went bankrupt? The answer is quite surprising. Or, is it true that work is losing its position in people''s lives in Western world? What is the relationship between people''s attitudes to work and the way they actually behave on the labour market? This timely book deals with these questions - and more - presenting fresh knowledge on changes in work orientations in many countries. It is based on genuine theoretical arguments and thorough empirical studies, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. It is a great source of new knowledge on work orientations and changes in attitudes to work.

The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise.

Pioneering thinker in organizational communication David Boje here compiles a collection of new essays on the theme of 'antenarrative,' or non-linear narrative, as applied to organizations and business, bringing together different approaches and philosophical interpretations of the concept.

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and figures have been extensively discussed and analyzed within the contexts of organization studies and management, Bourdieu''s ideas have, until recently, been largely ignored. Offering an authoritative evaluation of Bourdieu''s work, this book provides readers with conceptual frameworks, empirical examples, and methodological considerations for advancing theory and research in management and organization studies. This book presents an in-depth review of the relevance of Bourdieu''s social theory for organization and management studies, outlining the key aspects of Bourdieu''s approach and situating his work in its historical and intellectual context of the time. An outline of the treatment of Bourdieuan theory by management and organization scholars and a critique of the selective reception of his work are offered. The first edited collection to explore the benefits of Bourdieuan sociology for a management audience, this book is relevant for theory, research, and practice, and will appeal to an international scholarly audience of academics and research students.

Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ''social philosopher,'' he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always reluctant to reduce what he did to being part of ''Management.'' Instead, he concentrated on thinking about organizations and organizing, working with ideas about entity and process views of organizations, and also the dualisms of organization/environment, organization/disorganization, and concentrating particularly on ideas of the boundary or seam which divides and conjoins. He wrote about, and was influenced by systems theory and post-structuralist philosophy, particularly Whitehead, Bateson, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Simmel. Cooper has already been the subject of much commentary but much of his work is not well known, and it deserves a wider readership. The purpose of this collection is to gather together a body of essays which are widely dispersed in journals and edited collections. This is a repository of pieces and extracts which stand the test of time, and scholars will benefit from a collection which pulls together some of his most influential work. The collection also contains two essays, one biographical and one intellectual, about Cooper and his work.

Untold Stories in Organizations makes an important contribution to the organizational storytelling research agenda. This edited collection offers a critical reflection on the politics which marginalise organizational realities.

This book brings together international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It offers a nuanced look at attitudes, behavior and the dynamics of sexuality in organizations.

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".

Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while organization's pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. This book focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations.

This examination of women in agriculture looks at why farm women are virtually absent from positions of power and leadership. It is clear that ideology and structure prevent agricultural women from becoming prominent in an industry to which they contribute so much.

This book considers the ways in which the need to show (or hide) particular emotions translate into job roles ¿ specifically those of leaders or managers ¿ where the relationships are lasting, multi-directional and have complex, ongoing goals. The book contends that these multifaceted relationships contribute unique characteristics to the nature of the emotional labour required and expounds and explores this new genus within the `emotional labour¿ species.

A bold investigation into a challenging area of study that provides an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life,and considers the consequences of textual nature for organizational studies.

By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. This title focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations.

This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is salient and extremely important.

The modern business relies extensively upon myriad images and pictorial representations. This book provides a fresh disciplinary space in which to experiment and capture the significant role that images and other forms of engagements play in the performance of the organizational activities that make business possible.

Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a `blended workforce¿, i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors. With the evolution of the use of agency work in the Western world over the past decade, the chapters in this volume show how a focus on the management and organization of temporary agency work can be helpful to see possibilities and pitfalls for the use of temporary employment in the wake of changed employment practices and challenges to labor market stability and welfare structures. Its particular uniqueness lies in the empirical richness and variety of local case studies and the way in which these are related to wider policy aims, ideological shifts, and the dynamics of organizational practice, with a particular focus on the organization and management of `blended workforces¿.

This book provides a deeper understanding of job satisfaction and the circumstances under which people participate in various activities, coloring their subjective relationships to them. It also explores the effects of labor market changes and working conditions on work orientations and work attitudes. The analyses in each of the chapters make use of survey data from different countries, an approach which allows international comparisons, providing information from Europe, North America, and beyond.

In the last few decades we have witnessed an expansion in the amount of news coverage focusing on organizations and their activities and similarly, organizations have increased their investment in their own PR and media oriented forms of communication. This book explores how organizations and organizing can be understood as a part of a mediatized world and addresses what kind of consequences such mediatization has.

This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society.

The concept of narrative is explored in many different fields from organization studies to studies on identity, psychology, and learning. This book offers a systematic examination of non-traditional narrative inquiry in the management realm, organizing and developing its approach, and providing insights for management students and scholars.

A critical and empirical study that explores the constitution of managerial identities in the age of mass education in management and challenges the way we think about organizations and their management.

Presents research and a 'global paradigm' for the theory of style differences in human performance. This title intends to extend an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

Shows that interdisciplinary developments between the previously distinct fields of International Management (IM) and International Relations are important for the construction of a Latin America perspective in the field of International Management, contributing to the development of the IM field in other parts of the world.

There is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is important.

Considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. Covers organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, post-modernism and organizational analysis and critical management.