Contemporary Issues in Management Edited by Lindsay Hamilton Laura Mitchell Anita Mangan Keele University, UK Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA
Füll Contents List of contributors xi Introduction from the editors 1 Guide to the chapters 3 Final note 10 1 The corruption of business: A Statement of a contemporary problem 11 1.1 Introduction 11 1.2 Business amorality 11 1.3 A note on historical context 13 1.4 Economic institutional truths 15 1.5 Universal belief in shareholder primacy 16 1.6 The theory of shareholder primacy 19 1.7 The impacts of false ideology 21 1.8 Reversing the corruption of business 23 1.9 Conclusion 25 2 Ambiguity as organisational practica: An American Pragmatist perspective 28 2.1 Introduction 28 2.2 The role of ambiguity in organisations 29 2.3 The turn to practice in Organisation s tu dies: American Pragmatism 32 2.4 The place of ambiguity in American Pragmatism 34 2.5 Conclusion 37 3 Dignity and meaningfiil work in organisations 40 3.1 Introduction 40 3.2 What does dignity mean? Two 'contemporary' frameworks 41 3.3 Dignity on the ground 46 3.4 Discussion 48 3.5 Conclusion 50
viii Contemporary issues in management 4 Is paternalism still relevant? Changing culture in a mutual UK insurance Company 55 4.1 Introduction 55 4.2 Perspectives on paternalism 55 4.3 The methods and methodology 57 4.4 The case study 58 4.5 Moving to and from paternalism 59 4.6 A regime shift 64 4.7 Discussion and conclusion 68 5 Youth employment, masculinity and policy 72 5.1 Introduction 72 5.2 Enterprising and flexible workers: A lifelong commitment to the capitalist agenda 73 5.3 Young people learning to become enterprising workers 76 5.4 Ambiguity, agency and space for alternate understandings of being a worker 83 5.5 Summary 86 6 Hard work, productivity and the management of the farmed environment in anthropological perspective 90 6.1 Introduction 90 6.2 Theorising work and the work ethic 91 6.3 Work, hard work and their rhetorical deployment 94 6.4 Using hard work negatively 98 6.5 Environmental payments as 'money for old rope' 99 6.6 Hard work and environmental benefits go hand in glove 100 6.7 Discussion and conclusion 101 7 Disjointed, degraded and divided? A tale of dirty work at the chicken factory 105 7.1 Introduction 105 7.2 Contemporary meat work 106 7.3 What is' dirty work'? 107 7.4 Different 'dirty workers'? 110 7.5 Life (and death) in the chicken factoiy 111 7.6 Close-knit culture versus individualisation and resistance 115 7.7 Conclusion 118 8 Migration into the United Kingdom: Employers and the function of migrant labour 122 8.1 Introduction 122
Füll Contents ix 8.2 Theorising migration: Complexity and limitations 124 8.3 Migration to the UK and Western Europe: An historical comparison 126 8.4 Migration to the UK from the European Union: Contemporary developments 131 8.5 Employers, the 'function' of migrant workers and the neo-liberal State 137 8.6 Conclusions 139 9 Interpreting technology: Telework and the myth of liberation 144 9.1 Introduction 144 9.2 The Separation of work and home 146 9.3 The myth of telework 147 9.4 T echnology and boundary work: The Iife of the Any Bank teleworker 149 9.5 Discussion and conclusion 152 10 Media as mediation: Uncertainty and representation in the construction of news 157 10.1 Introduction 157 10.2 The taming of uncertainty 158 10.3 The re-presentation of events 160 10.4 News as natural and obvious 161 10.5 Groupthink and'pack journalism' 165 10.6 Conclusion 170 11 Care of the underdog: Animals, culture and the creation of moral certainty in the rescue shelter 173 11.1 Introduction 173 11.2 The work of care at Caring Companions 175 11.3 Concluding discussion: The creation of moral certainty 183 11.4 Final remarks 184 12 Where are the alternative organisations in Organisational Behaviour textbooks? 187 12.1 Introduction 187 12.2 Analysing the 'common sense' view of business: A discursive approach 188 12.3 The 'one best way' oflearning about business 190 12.4 Defining alternative organisations 193
x Contemporary issues in management 12.5 Thinking about the alternatives 196 12.6 Interpreting the world from multiple perspectives 201 Epilogue: Reflections on practice 205 Glossary 209 Index 217