Authority and Autonomy: Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work

✍ Scribed by Susanne Ekman (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 261
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Desire, Discovery, and Disillusionment in Modern Working Life....Pages 1-6
Affective Labor and Post-Bureaucracy....Pages 7-42
Setting the Scene — Analytics of Compassion....Pages 43-62
Methods — The Solidarity of Detachment....Pages 63-81
Contractuality and Authenticity — The Dual Discourses about Work....Pages 82-113
Captain or Comrade — What Employees Expect from their Managers....Pages 114-157
Predictable or Pioneering — What Managers Expect of Employees....Pages 158-200
Coping with Contradictions — Tensions, Double Binds, and Hybrids....Pages 201-225
Conclusion: Shaking Analytical Habits — An Empirical Quest for Compassion....Pages 226-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-253

✦ Subjects

Human Resource Management; Organization; Knowledge Management; Business Strategy/Leadership; Corporate Communication/Public Relations; Behavioral/Experimental Economics

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