Discussing: “The very idea of organizing becomes literally meaningless”

Abstract

PurposeGunther Anders in the 20th century and Hartmut Rosa in the 21st have argued that the technics of organization – that is, its physical and social technologies, have from acceleration become so uncontrollable and unpredictable that circumstances actually outstrip awareness to the degree that intentional “organizing” is more a fable than a reality, as stated in the quote from Rosa that forms the title of this article.Design/methodology/approachIn this article, two critical theorists are examined who have fundamentally rejected the “control” thesis that dominates organization theory. It is a thesis that assumes that organizational change ought to be goal-directed, leadership driven and make use of soft and hard technologies to achieve defined objectives.FindingsThe prevailing “idea” of organizing has become illusionary. The technics of accelerationism have overpowered it. Not “organizing” but “ethic-sizing” is what remains as the: “What is to be done.”Originality/valueThe tradition of Gunther Anders and Hartmut Rosa (second and third generation Frankfurter School) and the implications of their work for our assumptions about the relations between technology, control and organization is for a first time evidenced in this article.

This is not an exit: accounting education and attempting to escape the capitalist realist “cage”

“…maximisation of shareholder wealth, economic profit as an object of desire, etc.). Letiche (2021) in his consideration of accelerationism suggests that that a process of what he refers to as "ethic-sizing" as a potential escape from the process of seeing self and other as objects of consumption in a world increasingly resemblant of capitalist realism. In this vein, Yates (2023) argues for pedagogical methods that invoke ethics of the self and accountability in accounting education.…”

Nietzsche’s three metamorphoses of the spirit and Schopenhauer’s primordial suffering: an organizational culture change model redefining spirituality in the workplace

“…, 2023). The substitute meaning it offered cannot hide its impermanence, matching “the tempo of the times” (Letiche, 2021, p. 1216). Self-renouncement and self-sacrifice have been enough for a while (Singh et al.…”

“…, 2022) and its absolute compliance (Pizzolitto et al. , 2023) through inappropriate commands (Letiche, 2021) in the “barren” workplace.…”

“…Camel-employee's duty and obligation (Ramaswamy et al, 2023) have now fallen and being de-meaning as reliable values [inconsistency between personal beliefs and organizational values (Hunsaker and Ding, 2022)], however much it invokes these values as "millennial" and "gleaming" in order to ensure its leadership dominance (Pizzolitto et al, 2023). The substitute meaning it offered cannot hide its impermanence, matching "the tempo of the times" (Letiche, 2021(Letiche, , p. 1216.…”

“…Self-renouncement and self-sacrifice have been enough for a while to silently allow its belittling and devaluation through voluntary obedience (Lou et al, 2022) and its absolute compliance (Pizzolitto et al, 2023) through inappropriate commands (Letiche, 2021) in the "barren" workplace.…”