Rethinking misbehavior and resistance in organizations / edited by Alison Barnes, Lucy Taksa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, Alison.

Taksa, Lucy.

Series:

Advances in industrial and labor relations ; v. 19.

Advances in industrial & labor relations, 0742-6186 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personnel management.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior by looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. Reconsidering misbehavior from a range of different perspectives and disciplinary traditions, including history, employment relations, sociology, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, legal studies and film studies, chapters examine behaviors not only of workers but also of managers, entrepreneurs and consumers. The book begins with an overview by one of the leading scholars of misbehavior, Stephen Ackroyd, who reviews the study of the phenomenon, followed by conceptual reconsideration of the relationship between misbehavior and resistance in a changing industrial landscape. The remainder of the book traverses dimensions of misbehavior and resistance across time and geographical space through a number of case studies that examine behaviors in a range of different places, industries and sectors. In this way it extends analysis to actors outside of the workers who have largely been the focus of existing studies. The volume will add to the emerging body of evidence that disturbs assumptions of consensus and conformity in organizations.

Contents:

Even More Mis / Stephen Ackroyd

Still “Staying Loose in a Tightening World”? Revisiting Gerald Mars Cheats at Work / Louise Thornthwaite, Peter McGraw

Naming, Condoning, and Shaming: Interpreting Employee Assessments of Behavior and Misbehavior in the Workplace / Lucy Taksa

Mr Taylor Goes to Hollywood: Misbehavior in Film and TV / George Lafferty

On the Cold War Front: Dissent, Misbehavior, and Discursive Relations at Pan American Airways Guided Missiles Division / Christopher M. Hartt, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills

Incorporating Institutionalism: Reconceptualizing the Resistance and Misbehavior Binaries / Tony Dundon, Diane van den Broek

Customer Service Work and the Aesthetics of Resistance / Alison Barnes

Customers Behaving Badly! / Lawrence Ang, Scott Koslow

Exploring Entrepreneurship as Misbehavior / Erik Lundmark, Alf Westelius

Misbehavior, its Dimensions, and Relationship to Commitment in Organizations / Gordon Brooks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ncludes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781283868990

1283868997

9781780526638

1780526636

OCLC:

823723173