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Authority and Autonomy Susanne Ekman

Authority and Autonomy By Susanne Ekman

Authority and Autonomy by Susanne Ekman

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Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

Authority and Autonomy Summary

Authority and Autonomy: Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work by Susanne Ekman

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

About Susanne Ekman

SUSANNE EKMAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. She is primarily interested in the complex relationship between freedom and ethics and has recently pursued this issue ethnographically in the context of contemporary knowledge work.

Table of Contents

List of Tables Introduction 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 Bibliography

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NLS9781349345434
9781349345434
1349345431
Authority and Autonomy: Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work by Susanne Ekman
Susanne Ekman
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-09-18
253
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