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.

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1. How It Used To Be Simpler

2. Excess of Administrators and Knowledge Workers

3. The Colonisation 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

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781529244434
Publisert
2026-05-26
Utgiver
Bristol University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Biografisk notat

Mats Alvesson is Professor at the University of Bath, Lund University and City University of London.

Dennis Nørmark is an anthropologist, author and speaker.