Organizing: getting the beat

Mark Addleson

Chapter Chapter 3 in Beyond Management, 2011, pp 24-30 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Organizing, as Stephen Fineman et al. describe it, is an intensely and probably uniquely human phenomenon and full of life: While [we are]… “doing… [our jobs],” listening to someone talking, tapping keyboards, talking into telephones, or soldering electronic components, we are also making and exchanging meanings—a fundamental human/social process … As we interact with others at work, we bring our personal histories and our past experiences with us— finding common ground, compromising, disagreeing, negotiating, coercing.1 While our images of work ought to resonate with the collective energy of people doing things together (not always in harmony and not always successfully), books on management invariably make it seem inert, mechanical, and, frankly, dull. There is hardly a hint at how people depend on one another and what happens when cooperation is lacking, or of their shared satisfaction when they do a job well and their mutual disappointment, say, at failing to win a contract.

Keywords: Express Emotion; Meaning Construction; Rock Music; Collective Energy; Human Phenomenon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230343412_3

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