“Nomadic Theorizing with a Power Compass”

Mumby, Dennis K.

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“…By providing insight into rules-based forms of rationality (Mumby, 2004) and beliefs about the way everyday power unfolds in the context of organization, the circuits of power model illuminates how workplace bullying functions as a feature of power dynamics that effectively reproduces "taken for granted" forms of rationality, ensuring an "inertial, historical quality to them" (Clegg, 2005, p. 849) that allows them to become fixed. Over time, individuals become accustomed to bullying as a routine feature of their working life with the behavior legitimized as a feature of informal organizational authority in nursing teams.…”

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“…Drawing attention to the complexity of power in organizations, Clegg (1989a) proposed the circuits of power framework. This framework has been widely recognized as an important development in organizational and social theory (Mumby, 2004). Grounded in sociological conceptions of power, and organizational in its orientation and emphasis, the multicircuit model lays open for analysis the everyday constitution of power within institutions (Boje, 2001;Gordon, Kornberger, & Clegg, 2009;Westwood & Clegg, 2003).…”

Section: Toward a Different Understanding: The Circuits Of Power Frammentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bullying as Circuits of Power

Hutchinson

Vickers

Jackson

et al. 2010

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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It is not possible to understand bullying without considering the concept of power, and yet power has received little systematic attention in the literature on bullying. Framed largely as a manifestation of conflict, or as a consequence of organizational characteristics that trigger unwitting individuals to engage in abusive acts, superficial and clichéd understandings of the power dynamics involved in bullying are commonplace. The focus on conflict-based understandings offers limited insights into less readily observable forms of power that manifest within institutions. In this article, we draw upon Clegg's (1989a) "circuits of power" framework to map out an alternative understanding of workplace bullying-one that moves beyond the link with conflict. We employ a multidimensional model of bullying and offer interview exemplars from our study of bullying in the Australian nursing workplace. The analysis reveals the complex flows of power associated with bullying and suggests that commonly accepted assumptions and frameworks about workplace bullying have provided limited insight into the phenomenon, while potentially masking inappropriate manifestations of power within institutions.Workplace bullying, mobbing, incivility, and emotional abuse are increasingly recognized as features of the modern workplace, with mounting scholarly and administrative interest in these problems. Bullying is a gradual, cumulative, often hidden and intensely harmful experience (Hutchinson et al., 2006a), and

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Section: Toward a Different Understanding: The Circuits Of Power Frammentioning

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Bullying as Circuits of Power

Hutchinson

Vickers

Jackson

et al. 2010

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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“…Despite previous references to nomadic movement as a spatial metaphor for micro-resistance and alternative identity-work (e.g. Braidotti, 1994;Mumby, 2004), it is primarily a spatial practice. Drawing on Toynbee's (1946) historical studies of nomad populations, Deleuze and Guattari argue that a defining feature of nomads is that they 'do not move.…”

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All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

Thanem

2011

Organization

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Privileging the discursive expression of micro-resistance while exploiting spatial metaphors such as cynical distancing and escape, recent work in Critical Management Studies (CMS) has tended to find resistance everywhere without actually examining its spatial whereabouts. Utilizing a spatial approach, this paper therefore investigates how homeless people in Stockholm not only resisted but also coped otherwise with two urban planning projects that intended to drive them away from two public places. Whereas some of the homeless subverted the planners' intentions by returning, others confirmed their intentions by leaving. The paper further discusses the nomadic nature of these movements and how they were related to homeless discourses of apathy, cynicism and contentment. Finally, it discusses what implications this may have for homeless people and urban planning organizations, and for the understanding of resistance in CMS.

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Power

Murphy¹

2017

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication

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Scholarship in organizational communication and power often focuses on the use and abuse of power in contemporary organizations as well as the tactics used by individuals to obtain and/or resist dominant power structures. Some approaches look at power and how it can be seen as existing in the social arrangements and actions that structure organizational life. Others explore how power is constituted and reproduced through symbolic language and communication, often resulting in dominating social systems.

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“Nomadic Theorizing with a Power Compass”

Cited by 6 publications

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Bullying as Circuits of Power

Bullying as Circuits of Power

All talk and no movement? Homeless coping and resistance to urban planning

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