This work seeks to clarify the social relationship between organization and its representation. The contributors: relate organization theory to sociological representation theory; and look at the work and organization with the aim of showing that they are part of popular culture.

Introduction - John Hassard and Ruth Holliday PART ONE: REALISM AND REPRESENTATION The Documentary Film Movement - Ian Aitken The Post Office Touches All Branches of Life Representing Reality - John Hassard Cinema Verit[ac]e The Cultural Representation of Trade Unions - Peter Stead PART TWO: SEX AND VIOLENCE What Is Wrong with This Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in Disclosure - Joanna Brewis Philadelphia - Ruth Holliday Aids, Organization, Representation Saloon Girls - Maggie O′Neill Death and Desire in the American West PART THREE: MEN AND SUPERMEN Child′s Play - Christopher Grey Representations of Organization in Children′s Literature Management Gurus - Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter What Are We To Make of Them? Fictional Money (Or, Greed Isn′t So Good in the 1990s) - Linda McDowell Masculinity and Madness - Rolland Munro PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL FUTURES Cyberorganization - Martin Parker and Robert Cooper Cinema as Nervous System Computers and Representation - Warren Smith Organization in the Virtual World The Medium as Message - J Martin Corbett Sublime Technologies and Future Organization in Science Fiction Film, 1970-95

`This is a unique, fascinating and valuable treatment of material and issues which have been ignored in ′mainstream′ organisation studies. Read this and you will never again watch an episode of Casualty, The Bill or Silent Witness without boring your companion with critical commentary on the portrayal of hierarchy, sex role stereotyping, power relations, the role of authority figures and dysfunctional rules′ - Human Resource Management Journal `This worthwhile collection gathers together a series of essays dealing with the representation of social organizations in the popular media...The quality of analysis in all the contributions to this volume is consistently high, and the material covered is extensive. The book will prove useful on media/cultural studies courses as well as those concentrating on the sociology of organizations′ - European Journal of Communication