Making time : time and management in modern organizations / edited by Richard Whipp, Barbara Adam and Ida Sabelis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam, Barbara, 1927-2010.

Sabelis, Ida, 1954-

Whipp, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management.

Time management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world. The aim of this book is to bring time into sharper focus and in particular to look at the way time is constructed, made, managed, and used in organizations. The book both provides an overview of some of the key concepts in time and it explores how particular features of the modern world extend and change the temporal dimension of organizational activity. - ;Time is an essential feature of social and organizational life and part of the deep structure of business activity. Plans, performance, productivity, and pay are all link

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; Notes on Contributors; 1. Choreographing Time and Management: Traditions, Developments, and Opportunities; Part I: Masking Time, Making Time: Rethinking Basic Assumptions; 2. Towards a Theory of Timing: Kairology in Business Networks; 3. Taking Time Seriously: Organizational Change, Flexibility, and the Present Time in a New Perspective; 4. Now's the Time! Consumption and Time-Space Disruptions in Postmodern Virtual Worlds; 5. Time and Management as a Morality Tale, or 'What's Wrong with Linear Time, Damn It?'

Part II: Temporal Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World6. Hidden Causes for Unknown Losses: Time Compression in Management; 7. Cooperation Engineered: Efficiency in the 'Just-in-Time' System; 8. Hanging on the Telephone: Temporal Flexibility and the Accessible Worker; 9. A New Time Discipline: Managing Virtual Work Environments; 10. The Use of Time by Management and Consumers: An Analysis of the Computer Industry; Part III: The Temporal Implications of Alternative Approaches to Management; 11. Contested Presents: Critical Perspectives on 'Real-Time' Management

12. The Rhythm of the Organization: Simultaneity, Identity, and Discipline in an Australian Coastal Hotel13. Interpretative Times: The Timescape of Managerial Decision Making; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-34582-2

0-19-151445-4

1-60119-538-9