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Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business & management and sociology courses.
Organizational Postmodernization
Organizational Postmodernization
Organizations are geared to respond to rather than regulate markets. They are seen as frameworks for learning as much as instruments of control. Their hierarchies are flatter and their structures more open. The guerrilla force takes over from the standing army. All this has liberated the centre from the tyranny of the immediate. (Murray, 1989a: 47)
Flexible working, more like the Martini contract; anytime, anyplace, anywhere; but no more money and less holidays into the bargain. If this is a postmodern way of working they can stick it. (Disgruntled university employee responding to the new partnership contract on offer by his institution)
As we embark upon the second millennium of the Christian calendar, it is perhaps inevitable that we should be on the lookout ...
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