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Author McCabe, Darren.

Title Power at work : how employees reproduce the corporate machine / Darren McCabe
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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Description xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Series Routledge research in employment relations ; 18
Routledge Research in Employment Relations ; 18
Routledge research in employment relations ; 18
Contents Living with innovation -- Do managers dream of electric staff or a design for drudgery? -- Manufacturing the enterprise self -- Mechanizing emotions -- In the belly of the machine -- Coping through teamwork or how staff oil the machine -- Divided and conquered? -- Conclusion
Summary "Do employees who are treated as machines become machines? How do they cope with work that regards them as less than human? Do managers dream of electric staff? What are the consequences of such thinking and are there alternative ways to organize work in the twenty-first century? These are just some of the questions asked by Darren McCabe in this ethnography of a major UK bank."
"McCabe argues that innovations associated with the 'new' corporation seem to reproduce many of the conditions that we associate with the industrial age such as hierarchy, the division of labour, task specialization and command and control approaches to management. Through exploring strategy, technology, enterprise, teamwork and culture change programmes in a contemporary organization, McCabe demonstrates the debilitating and unintended consequences of these interventions. Combining organizational theory and literary illustrations, McCabe asks management to adopt new approaches that take into account the experience and inequalities of work and calls for collective resistance should management not be willing to do so." "This book will of great interest to both graduates and post-graduates engaged with Organizational Behaviour, HRM, Strategy Technology and the Sociology of Work."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-237) and index
Subject Psychology, Industrial.
Industrial sociology.
Organizational behavior.
LC no. 2006035409
ISBN 9780415417976 hardback
041541797X hardback