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Today’s organizations are increasingly complex with many structures, practices and rules to follow. While the organizational head – an administrative knowing better class - becomes larger, the space for people doing the core job of the organization to think outside the box and take personal responsibility shrinks.
How can we tackle this and give workers more space to use their judgement?
Drawing on cases from universities, healthcare and other industries, this book reveals how the growth of management, policies and expertise are often counterproductive. The authors provide solutions for rethinking work and organization and to encourage what they call post-infantilized management.
Highlighting key debates around organizations and bureaucracy, this book presents an alternative vision for the future of work and management.
'On a scientific basis, the authors challenge many of the obvious assumptions that characterize today's leadership training. They question simplified models, trendy management concepts and overly positive rhetoric - and instead point to the need for judgment, maturity and critical thinking. Otherwise, there is a risk that organizations will be characterized by empty rhetoric, excessive administration and symbolic politics.
For those who work with leadership, governance or organizational development, this book offers an intellectually sharp and thought-provoking critique. Read and reflect.' Pär Boman, Chairman of Volvo and Handelsbanken
Mats Alvesson is Professor at the University of Bath, Lund University and City University of London.
Dennis Nørmark is an anthropologist, author and speaker.
1. How It Used to be Simpler
2. Excess of Professional Administrators and Knowledge Workers
3. The Colonization of the Lifeworld
4. The Rise of Managerialism and the Decline of Productivity
5. A World of Imperfections and Vulnerabilities
6. The New Unfreedom
7. The (False?) Need for Regulation and Improvement
8. Judgement as the Key Principle
9. Post-Infantilized Management
10. Conclusion and Perspectives