Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self / Edition 1

by Alan McKinlay, Ken P Starkey

Overview

This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.

The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power//knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a disciplinary device, a mechanism that seeks to alter rational choice rather than constrain bodies. This raises questions about Foucault's link

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803975460
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/17/1998
Series:	Organization Studies Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Managing Foucault - Alan Mc Kinlay and Ken Starkey
Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
PART ONE: FOUCAULT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis - Gibson Burrell
The Contribution of Michel Foucault
Foucault, Power and Organizations - Stewart Clegg
Labour as Dressage - Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATION
Discipline, Surveillance and the 'Career' - Mike Savage
Employment on the Great Western Railway 1833-1914
Examining Accounts and Accounting for Management - Keith Hoskin
Inverting Understandings of 'the Economic'
The 'Velvet Grip' - Alan Mc Kinlay and Ken Starkey
Managing Managers in the Modern Corporation
Management Accounting Numbers - Trevor Hopper and Norman Mc Intosh
Freedom or Prison - Geneen vs Foucault
PART THREE: (RE)CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN ORGANIZATION
Discursive Formations, Strategized Subordination and Self-Surveillance - Stanley Deetz
Through the Looking Glass - Alan Mc Kinlay and Phil Taylor
Foucault and the Politics of Production
Beyond Good and Evil - Barbara Townley
Depth and Division in the Management of Human Resources
Re-Framing Foucault - Patricia Findlay and Tim Newton
The Case of Performance Appraisal
Afterword - Ken Starkey and Alan Mc Kinlay
Deconstructing Organization - Discipline and Desire

Editorial Reviews

‘This book is likely to be of great interest to Foucault scholars concerned with organisations and also of interest to organization experts with some familiarity with Foucault' - Sociology

‘In these days of overwhelming 'labour flexibility', this book is timely and offers new critical understandings. The majority of the 14 authors are based in Management Schools across the UK, USA, Australia and Canada. They all display in-depth scholarly understanding of Foucault's intellectual enterprise.... The strength of this collection - apart from filling an obvious gap - derives from a two-directional approach: from Foucault to managment organisation theory and vice versa.' - Modern and Contemporary France

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