Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/JZCVXv Interpreting the Maternal Organization By: Heather Höpfl Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138008618, 1138008613 eText ISBN: 9781134450206, 1134450206 Edition: 1st Pages: 264 Copyright year: 2002 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134450206R90 Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to confront issues related to the dehumanization of organizations. This book brings these issues together, presenting an original construction of the organization via an emphasis on the (m)other. This book is not a feminist tract, nor is it primarily about the experiences of women in organizations. It rather argues that conventional representations of the organization are patriarchal, masculine, directed by the animus and that such representations reduce the notion of 'organization' to abstract relationships, rational actions and purposive behaviour. This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing. Additional ISBNs 9780415285742, 0415285747
