Comprehensively encompassing various topics within the area of organizational analysis, this book provides key readings which complement the study of organizations and organizational theory. It reflects the significant shifts emerging in organization theory.

CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION THEORY 1 Introduction 1 Reading 1.1: Studying Organizations 4 Reading 1.2: Accounts of Organizations: Organizational “Structures” and the Accounting Process 8 Reading 1.3: Organization Theory as Critical Science? 11 Discussion Questions 15 Introduction Reference 15 Recommended Further Readings 15 CHAPTER 2 ORGANIZING 17 Introduction 17 Reading 2.1: Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 20 Reading 2.2: Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing 26 Reading 2.3: Managers Divided: Organizational Politics and IT Management 33 Discussion Questions 37 Recommended Further Readings 37 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING 39 Introduction 39 Reading 3.1: Introducing Critical Theory to Management: Management in Critical Perspective 43 Reading 3.2: Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers 47 Reading 3.3: How do Managers Think? Identity, Morality and Pragmatism in Managerial Theory and Practice 49 Reading 3.4: Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control and Subjectivity 53 Discussion Questions 57 Introduction References 57 Recommended Further Readings 57 CHAPTER 4 STRATEGY 59 Introduction 59 Reading 4.1: The Work of Strategizing and Organizing: For a Practice Perspective 62 Reading 4.2: Post-processual Challenges for the Emerging Strategy-as- Practice Perspective: Discovering Strategy in the Logic of Practice 67 Reading 4.3: Critical Approaches to Strategic Management 70 Reading 4.4: Corporate Strategy, Organizations and Subjectivity: A Critique 78 Discussion Questions 81 Introduction References 81 Recommended Further Readings 82 CHAPTER 5 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND INNOVATION 83 Introduction 83 Reading 5.1: Manufacturing Consent 86 Reading 5.2: Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams 89 Reading 5.3: Tales of the Unexpected: Strategic Management and Innovation and Dreams and Designs on Strategy: A Critical Analysis of TQM and Management Control 92 Reading 5.4: Belonging on the Move: Market Rhetoric and the Future as Obligatory Passage 96 Discussion Questions 102 Introduction References 103 Recommended Further Readings 103 CHAPTER 6 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 105 Introduction 105 Reading 6.1: Human Resource Management – Rhetorics and Realities 109 Reading 6.2: Planning for Personnel? HRM Reconsidered 112 Reading 6.3: Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and its Relevance for Human Resource Management 117 Reading 6.4: Developing a Tactical Approach to Engaging with ‘Strategic’ HRM 118 Discussion Questions 121 Introduction References 121 Recommended Further Readings 121 CHAPTER 7 LEADERSHIP AND SYMBOLISM 123 Introduction 123 Reading 7.1: Conceptualizing Leadership Processes: A Study of Senior Managers in a Financial Services Company 127 Reading 7.2: Leadership and the Management of Meaning 132 Reading 7.3: Symbols and Symbolic Behaviour: Definitions and Distinctions 136 Discussion Questions 138 Introduction References 138 Recommended Further Readings 138 CHAPTER 8 POWER, CONTROL AND RESISTANCE 141 Introduction 141 Reading 8.1: Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the 20th Century 145 Reading 8.2: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations 146 Reading 8.3: Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace 150 Reading 8.4: Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That 153 Discussion Questions 157 Introduction References 157 Recommended Further Readings 157 CHAPTER 9 TECHNOLOGY 159 Introduction 159 Reading 9.1: Introduction: Understanding Innovation, Organizational Change and Technology 161 Reading 9.2: Caught in the Wheels: The High Cost of Being a Female Cog in the Male Machinery of Engineering 164 Reading 9.3: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power 166 Reading 9.4: Formal Organization as Representation: Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation 168 Reading 9.5: Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the E-economy 170 Discussion Questi