Alternatives to Management Ideas

Parker, Martin

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“…This discourse propagates business-like ways of working in the public services through standardized procedures, a focus on efficiency, and marketization. Thomas and Davies explain that “[w]hen facing the subjectivizing effects of NPM, individuals may choose to draw on some aspects as a ‘discursive resource’ (Parker, 1997) in asserting an identity, while attempting to subvert and ‘wriggle out’ of the other ways that NPM attempts to classify, determine and categorize them.” (Thomas and Davies, 2005, p. 700).…”

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Micro-political strategies in negotiating the role of women's networks in organizations

Gremmen,

Benschop

2023

EDI

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PurposeThe authors aim to contribute to current knowledge on women's networks in organizations by exploring the strategies employed by members of women's networks, Human Resources (HR) management and senior line management to negotiate the role of these networks in their organizations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors employ the theoretical perspective of micro-politics to analyze qualitative data they collected in an action research project using open-ended interviews and participant observation. The interviews were conducted with network board and active members, and members of their organizations' HR departments and senior management. Participant observation of the interviewees' interactions took place during facilitated workshops.FindingsAdding to the literature, the authors find that members of the different parties employ different micro-political strategies. Many senior HR and management members demand that the networks' activities contribute to the organizations' diversity aims and bottom line. They largely avoid strategic cooperation with the networks. Most network members, in turn, resist the restricted role of the networks as an instrument to realize their organizations' business case. They claim some freedom to independently decide on the networks' strategies and activities. They resist being attributed tasks and responsibilities that they consider to reside with their organizations. Moreover, they try to sustain cooperative relationships with senior HR and management in an advisory role.Originality/valueThe action research approach enabled the authors to contribute to existing knowledge and extend the micro-politics theoretical perspective to include the collective agency of members of organizational groups and cooperation between these groups.

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Micro-political strategies in negotiating the role of women's networks in organizations

Gremmen,

Benschop

2023

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“…CSR) for business advantage, including reputation, sales or employee control. Likewise, it applies to resistance or activism (Blee 2012) in the context of corporations (Den Hond and De Bakker 2006), including making choices about the numerous alternative forms of organising to business and management (Parker 2019).…”

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Ideology in Management Studies

Seeck¹,

Boncori²,

Fougère³

et al. 2018

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Ideology is a core and contested concept in the social sciences, but also long deployed in management research to highlight the political, embedded and/or obscuring nature of ideas. Indeed, many would argue that management itself is inherently ideological in legitimating or privileging managerial interests and concealing other groups and ways of organising. In the first systematic review of how ideology has been conceptualized in management studies, this article explores its diverse and changing meanings in order to develop and sustain the concept.It is based on a heuristic review of 175 articles and 41 books published between 1956 and 2018. Further developing categories used in the social sciences around its role, we found views of ideology as: (1) domination; (2) legitimation; (3) interpretation; (4) integration and; (5) normative logic. In addition, emerging perspectives were identified where ideology was an (6) object of critique; and (7) fantasy structuring social reality. We describe, illustrate and evaluate these, often internally diverse and interrelated, perspectives as well as compare them with sometimes competing notions within the management field, such as discourse, culture and legitimation. We also bring together the different approaches and argue for a pluralist, but not infinitely flexible, approach to the concept. In doing so, we identify research agendas for ideology within management and organisation studies.

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Alternatives to Management Ideas

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Micro-political strategies in negotiating the role of women's networks in organizations

Micro-political strategies in negotiating the role of women's networks in organizations

Ideology in Management Studies

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