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Alone at work: Isolation, competition and co-dependency in flexibilised retail
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Ingår i: Economic and Industrial Democracy. - : SAGE Publications. - 0143-831X .- 1461-7099. ; 42:4, s. 1254-1281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous studies of flexibilisation through employer-controlled flexible scheduling and off-site isolated work have shown how such practices have detrimental effects on workers' wellbeing. This qualitative study, set in Swedish retail, adds to previous findings by showing how flexible scheduling practices that include irregular variation of work hours and headcount have consequences also for worker interaction in the workplace. Even on-site work can be experienced as isolating if workers are 'spread too thin' in efforts to reduce labour costs. Set in two different retail settings, the study demonstrates and discusses how inter-employee competition and co-dependency are created, respectively. The authors also discuss how the flexibilisation described in this study reduced possibilities for face-to-face meetings and communication between co-workers, between workers and managers, and between workers and union representatives. Finally, it is discussed how the kind of flexibilisation described in this study coincides with defeatism and barriers to collective voice as well as action.
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Death metaphors and factory closure
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Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 20:1, s. 23-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to further our understanding of the role of death metaphors in the context of factory closure. A closure is an example of what has been called an organizational death. This refers to a literal ending, but there is also a metaphorical meaning. In this case study, three root-metaphors of different kinds of death explain the actors' accounts of the enactments of the closure, changing over time. Firstly, employees have mainly described managers as responsible and the decision as illegitimate and deliberate (murder). However, managers and others have described the decision as strategic and inevitable (sacrificial killing). The beginning of the closure process was mostly described by employees as irresponsible. Later on, accounts were better explained using a palliative death metaphor. The metaphor analysis offered a contextualized, process-oriented, and agentic understanding of the closure which is relevant to other contexts where the types of death metaphors may vary.
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- Arman, Rebecka, 1976, et al.
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Det motvilliga ledarskapet
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Ingår i: Det extrema ledarskapet. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144075167 ; , s. 191-212
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Länge nog har vi studerat ledarskap i helt vanliga företag och i offentliga förvaltningar. Och alltför länge har vi fått hålla till godo med en ledarskapslitteratur som upprepar sig utan att ge oss ny kunskap. Bristen på studier av ledarskap i andra sammanhang har hindrat oss från att lära något nytt. Det extrema ledarskapet är ett försök att träda utanför den gängse ramen. I boken presenteras studier av ledarskap i avvikande eller extrema sammanhang och situationer. I boken finns beskrivningar av bland annat ledarskap vid polarexpeditioner, av hemliga agenter, under dataspelskrig och i nunnekloster. De utvalda exemplen ger vart och ett en ny bild av hur ledarskap fungerar. Tillsammans bidrar bokens extrema exempel med en sannare bild av vad som är vanligt och normalt än den snäva normalitet som ledarskaps-litteraturen visar upp. Det extrema ledarskapet är en bok rik på exempel men stannar inte där. Syftet är att vidareutveckla vår kunskap om ledarskap. Genom hela boken pågår därför en analytisk diskussion av centrala frågor om vad ledarskap är, och vad vi skall ha ledare till. Är det till exempel alltid bra med mer ledarskap? Att mer och bättre ledarskap löser alla problem är en vanlig uppfattning. Men kanske är denna förhoppning själva kärnan i problemet? Boken vänder sig till alla dem som vill bidra till utvecklingen av ett rimligare och därmed bättre ledarskap.
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Fragmentation in managerial work - A study of first- and second-line managers in health care.
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Ingår i: 27th EGOS Colloquium, Gothenburg, 7-9 July. Sub-theme 48: Leadership and managerial work: identity, fairness and work behavior..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a study on health care managers’ work. Ten first- and second-line managers from different types of health care settings were shadowed and interviewed for four days each. Three additional managers were interviewed and observed during meetings. The study contributes to both the managerial work activities and health care management research traditions with its analysis of how fragmentation and processes of power mutually and dynamicly constitute each other in everyday work, a relationship that has previously been unexplored. Scheduled and unscheduled meetings, communication activities, and deskwork consume the majority of managers’ work time. Many short activities, with rapid changes between tasks, characterize their workdays, which can be seen as evidence of work fragmentation. In taking a pragmatist and non-idealist perspective on the processes of power, this study also shows that even when the managers gave accounts of fragmentation, they typically took part in collective negotiations to choose and legitimize their activities. The managers used a narrative of fragmentation to negotiate in order to gain and/or maintain control over selected activities and to legitimately reduce their accountability for those activities. Thus, the managers’ narrative of fragmentation was related dynamically to disciplinary power processes. The qualitative method of interpretation used in the study generated results which are generalizable with respect to the development of useful concepts and a new vocabulary for the study of managerial work.
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Images of the life metaphor in organizational studies
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Ingår i: Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780192895707 ; , s. 137-150
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- Metaphors for organization and management have been a subject of strong interest in the area of organizational studies since the 1980s. Metaphors enhance the understanding of organizations and provide a mechanism for critiquing current practices, increasing effectiveness, and improving communication. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies provides a comprehensive reference for researchers, educators, and managers. The book comprises twenty-nine chapters, which are authored by over forty contributors, many of whom have played major roles in the development of the field over the years. The theoretical underpinnings of organizational metaphors are explored. An array of metaphorical contexts for understanding management and organizations is presented. The various uses of metaphor as a tool in research, education, and management are addressed, as are the limitations of metaphors. Finally, future research directions related to metaphors in organizational studies and management are proposed.
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- Arman, Rebecka, 1976, et al.
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Inspecting life: professional vision in assisted reproduction technology
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Ingår i: Cognition, Technology & Work. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1435-5558 .- 1435-5566. ; 21:3, s. 383-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A growing scholarship in organization studies has examined how visual practices are informed by and situated within organizational settings and routines. Using the concept of professional vision, this is a study of the visual work of embryologists selecting human embryos in the field of assisted reproductive technologies. The term professional vision accentuates how embryologists cope with a number of tensions to accomplish disciplinary objectivity in their work. The study shows how visual practices are simultaneously individual and collective. While there are internationally enacted standard protocols guiding the routine-based work, these are continuously modified as novel clinical data is reported. Therefore, the embryologists’ inspection of life needs to actively accommodate both standard cases and deviations therefrom. This ultimately renders the professional vision of embryology something other than an “exact science” but rather a fluid, partly improvised, subjective, and at the same time highly specialized, routinized aesthetic practice. The study contributes to the emerging scholarship on visuality and professional vision in organizations, specifically to how standards are used in such practices. In addition, the study adds to the organizational research on assisted reproduction technology.
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