Stewart Clegg

Et oversigtsværk, som har en holdbarhed ud over de helt aktuelle diskussioner. Denne 2. udgave giver dig i håndbogsform et overblik over teoretiske og praktiske tilgange. Indholdet er opdateret, så det afspejler både klassiske og nyere tilgange, udvikling i litteraturen samt nyeste eksempler og tematikker. Vi lever i et "samfund af organisationer”. Det betyder, at “organisationer” ikke er noget, vi kan vælge fra – eller til. Det er et fænomen, der omfatter næsten enhver dimension af det moderne samfund, og som stadig forandrer sig. En bog om organisationsteori til studerende fra bachelorniveau og opefter, men den kan også bruges på efteruddannelser, hvor det organisatoriske stof har særlig interesse. Værket er inddelt i tre hoveddele: PERSPEKTIVER: Organisationsteorien tilbyder en række forskellige perspektiver og analyseapparater, som tematiserer bestemte aspekter af organisationer og organiseringsprocesser. PRAKSISFELTER: Organisationer rummer bestemte typer af praksisser – strategi, ledelse, forandringsprocesser osv. – hvortil der knytter sig særlige begreber, værktøjer og problemstillinger. ORGANISATIONSFORMER: Organisationer eksisterer i bestemte kontekster, som rammesætter deres praksisser: den offentlige organisation, den private virksomhed og den frivillige organisation.

Dark Triad in Leaders examines how corporate and political history is filled with ‘successful’ figures who ultimately caused harm, sowed misery and destroyed organizations. Arménio Rego, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Ace V. Simpson, and Stewart R. Clegg explore the concept and consequences of ‘Dark Triad’ (DT) leaders, characterized by high levels of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. DT leaders are particularly dangerous because they resort to seductive and manipulative tactics to reach power and leadership positions and then, if left unchecked, instrumentalize others to pursue their own personal goals. Providing mechanisms for preventing, managing and defending against DT leadership, the authors discuss cases of celebrated leaders that resulted in causing harm and destruction of livelihoods. They emphasize the need to avoid empowering these harmful traits and investigate how susceptible followers and conducive environments can enable individuals with DT characteristics to take power. The book draws on multiple fields, including leadership, organizational psychology, and business ethics, to portray the danger and irresponsibility of success earned at the expense of others. Through theoretical analysis and empirical cases, chapters shed light on the importance of protecting organizations, warning that business schools should be cautious about their teaching methods.This book is a fascinating and crucial read for scholars and students of business leadership, human resource management, organizational behavior, and social psychology. Business professionals and those in management roles will also benefit from its practical insights.

Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection, awakening and practical application of compassion within the workplace across dyadic, team and organizational contexts. Historically, compassion work has been largely unacknowledged in official organizational discourse. Yet, wherever there are human beings, there will be suffering; where there is human suffering, one can often find human responses infused with kindness and compassion. This observation holds true across industries, professions, and communities. The book explores the complexities of organizational compassion, analyzing the factors that enhance organizational compassion capabilities, as well as those that make compassion falter and fail. The primary aim of this book is to foster the cultivation of organizational compassion by providing a provocative, stimulating and engaging foray into the academic study of organizational compassion for readers, ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and executive students, as well as reflective practitioners. In a world marked by suffering and challenges, a research-based understanding and fostering of compassion at work, offers a path towards a better future.

Organisasjonsforståelse gir en helhetlig, oppdatert og kritisk innføring i organisasjonsfaget. Stoffet presenteres i en tydelig norsk kontekst med den norske arbeidslivsmodellen som ramme, samtidig som internasjonale perspektiver gir innsikt i hvordan organisasjoner opererer i en verden preget av digitalisering, globalisering og bærekraftsutfordringer. Boken dekker sentrale temaer i organisasjonsfaget, fra organisasjoners formål, mål og struktur, til organisasjonskultur, makt og beslutninger, samhandling, ledelse, innovasjon og endring. Den kombinerer klassiske og nyere teorier og har et kritisk blikk på forenklede oppskrifter og etablerte praksiser. Organisasjonsforståelse har en gjennomtenkt pedagogisk oppbygging som gjør den særlig egnet for studenter uten særlige forkunnskaper i faget. Fagstoffet formidles på en tilgjengelig og engasjerende måte: Klare læringsmål i hvert kapittel hjelper studentene å navigere i stoffet. Modeller, figurer og tabeller visualiserer komplekse sammenhenger. Fire typer tekstbokser – «Refleksjon», «I praksis», «Fordypning» og «Paradokser» – gir variasjon og støtte til aktiv, kritisk og praksisnær læring. Det er utviklet flere supplerende ressurser til hjelp for leseren. Studenter kan skaffe seg en digital hjelpebok med oppgaver, caser, fordypningstemaer og andre digitale læringsressurser. Forelesere får tilgang til undervisningsmateriell med lysark, opplegg og eksempeloppgaver. Mer informasjon finnes på organisasjonsforståelse.no. Organisasjonsforståelse er skrevet for studenter som trenger en innføring i organisasjonsfaget. Den er også egnet for studenter som tar videreutdanning innen organisasjon og ledelse, og for praktikere som ønsker mer helhetlig, oppdatert og relevant faglig innsikt i faget.

Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection, awakening and practical application of compassion within the workplace across dyadic, team and organizational contexts. Historically, compassion work has been largely unacknowledged in official organizational discourse. Yet, wherever there are human beings, there will be suffering; where there is human suffering, one can often find human responses infused with kindness and compassion. This observation holds true across industries, professions, and communities. The book explores the complexities of organizational compassion, analyzing the factors that enhance organizational compassion capabilities, as well as those that make compassion falter and fail. The primary aim of this book is to foster the cultivation of organizational compassion by providing a provocative, stimulating and engaging foray into the academic study of organizational compassion for readers, ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and executive students, as well as reflective practitioners. In a world marked by suffering and challenges, a research-based understanding and fostering of compassion at work, offers a path towards a better future.

Presenting the emergence of new organizational designs in a novel way, this insightful book blends theory and practice to examine major trends and directions, the key ideas that underpin organizational design and how these ideas might be applied.

Paradoxes, contrary propositions that are not contestable separately but that are inconsistent when conjoined, constitute a pervasive feature of contemporary organizational life. When contradictory elements are constituted as equally important in day-to-day work, organizational actors frequently experience acute tensions in engaging with these contradictions. This Element discusses the presence of paradoxes in the life of organizations, introduces the reader to the notion of paradox in theory and practice, and distinguishes paradox and adjacent conceptualizations such as trade-off, dilemma, dialectics, ambiguity, etc. This Element also covers what triggers paradoxes and how they come into being whereby the Element distinguishes latent and salient paradoxes and how salient paradoxes are managed. This Element discusses key methodological challenges and possibilities of studying, teaching, and applying paradoxes and concludes by considering some future research questions left unexplored in the field.

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda, but this textbook is unique in taking a reflective approach, focussing on the positive while also accommodating critical perspectives relating to power and control. Positive Organizational Behaviour provides an integrated conceptual framework, evidence-based findings and practical tools to gain an understanding of the potential of positive organizational practices. This innovative new textbook will provide advanced management and psychology students with a grounding in the area, and help them develop strategies for building effective and responsible organizations.

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda, but this textbook is unique in taking a reflective approach, focussing on the positive while also accommodating critical perspectives relating to power and control. Positive Organizational Behaviour provides an integrated conceptual framework, evidence-based findings and practical tools to gain an understanding of the potential of positive organizational practices. This innovative new textbook will provide advanced management and psychology students with a grounding in the area, and help them develop strategies for building effective and responsible organizations.

A realist's guide to management, the authors capture the complex life of organizations, providing not only an account of theories, but also an introduction to their practice with examples from everyday life and culture discussing the key themes and debates along the way.

In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociology, political science, philosophy and organization theory. The book raises and answers some of the issues which are important in the construction of a theoretical apparatus for the analysis of power and at the same time it proposes an alternative concept of organization, centred around the themes of power and control.

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it the meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations School the development of typological systems and contingency models of the organization key concepts of goals, environment and technology.

This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By making use of the discussions he recorded at a construction site, the author brings the reader into contact with the everyday social world in which he locates his analysis of power and authority at both a structural and phenomenological level. This analysis is complemented by the author’s review of the literature on ‘theorizing’ by writers such as Wittgenstein, Blum, McHugh, Phillips and Cicourel; his examination of the ‘community power debate’ between authors such as Bachrach and Baratz and Dahl; and a survey of the literature on power in its organizational aspects by Weber, Simmel and the more contemporary work of Hickson.

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By making use of the discussions he recorded at a construction site, the author brings the reader into contact with the everyday social world in which he locates his analysis of power and authority at both a structural and phenomenological level. This analysis is complemented by the author’s review of the literature on ‘theorizing’ by writers such as Wittgenstein, Blum, McHugh, Phillips and Cicourel; his examination of the ‘community power debate’ between authors such as Bachrach and Baratz and Dahl; and a survey of the literature on power in its organizational aspects by Weber, Simmel and the more contemporary work of Hickson.

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it the meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations School the development of typological systems and contingency models of the organization key concepts of goals, environment and technology.

In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociology, political science, philosophy and organization theory. The book raises and answers some of the issues which are important in the construction of a theoretical apparatus for the analysis of power and at the same time it proposes an alternative concept of organization, centred around the themes of power and control.

Hva skal til for å finne olje i et område der mange har prøvd, men feilet? Hva skal til for å designe bygg som blir prisvinnende kulturelle landemerker? Og hva kan de beste arkitektene, oljeleterne, forretningsadvokatene, journalistene og forretningsutviklerne innen bankvirksomhet og trading-analyse ha til felles?Boken Idea Work. Om profesjonell kreativitet kan gi deg svarene. Boken bygger på et fireårig forskningsprosjekt med samme navn. I dette prosjektet sammenlignet en gruppe norske og internasjonale forskere praksis for ekstraordinært idéarbeid i seks virksomheter: Snøhetta, Statoil, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen, SpareBank 1, Thompson Reuters Point Carbon og Aftenpostens A-magasinet. Prosjektet var støttet av Norges Forskningsråds program for Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena (BIA). Forfatterne viser i Idea Work hvordan disse ledende bedriftene jobber forbausende likt når de arbeider kreativt med å utvikle og realisere ideer.Boken gir oss blant annet glimt fra hvordan Snøhetta jobbet med designet av Operaen og minnesmerket for 9/11, og hvordan oljeletere i Statoil fant mest olje av alle oljeletere på verdensbasis i 2011. Vi får presentert fortellinger om hvordan prepping, skisser, pin-ups, drama, undring og punk er viktige kvaliteter ved det ekstraordinære. Her er det faglige forklaringer som plasserer eksemplene i internasjonal forskningsfront.Idea Work henvender seg til praktikere så vel som studenter. Den forteller engasjerende historier fra reelle verdiskapingsprosesser, og blander ny teori med tips for praksis. Den er relevant for alle som arbeider med utviklingsarbeid og utvikling av nye ideer, linjeledere så vel som eksperter. Faglig sett gir den et sjeldent bidrag til å beskrive og forstå kreativitet som noe kollektivt og rotfestet i hverdagspraksis.2. opplaget av Idea Work, som nå er i salg, er en forbedret versjon m.t.p. lesbarhet og design. Idea Work finnes på norsk og engelsk. Sagt om boken:«Prepare to be surprised. This book on idea work significantly enriches how we see, understand and do the everyday work of making ideas transformative. The book is simultaneously simple and profound, playful and serious, practical and theoretical. No doubt it will be useful and used by anyone who is curious about how ideas become real in everyday activities. The book both makes the process of idea work accessible and mysterious at the same time. No matter what your interest is in idea work, read a page, read a chapter, read the whole book – any engagement with the book will excite novel thought and practical advice – a rare and pleasing combination.» Jane Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan«A great addition to the literature on organizational creativity» Distinguished Research Professor Gareth Morgan, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto«Idea Work is a journey that makes you believe in the magic of ideas all over. It reminded me about what is best at work: creating something uniquely impactful with the help of daring wonder, some joint laughter and a little bit of anarchism for spice.»Välikangas Liisa, Professor in Organization and Management, Aalto University/Co-founder at Innovation Democracy«This book is an explosive package of insight, cutting edge methodology, ready-to-implement instruments and elevating inspiration. Exciting to glance and compelling to read systematically, the book walks its talk. It is perhaps the most uplifting and yet realistic book on organizational innovation and creativity I know. Deeply embracing the seemingly mundane actions of pratitioners in a number of different fields, the book is an empirically informed synthetic conceptualization of positively deviant organizational creativity. While scholarly impressive and highly useful as a guide to the frontiers of the research, the book entirely avoids the pitfalls of overtheorizing. The book sets your ideas in motion - and in ways that will take you by surprise. The book "activates the drama" of your internal angels of creativity, inspires your "craving wonder", will encourage you "to zoom out" and look with "daring imagination" for possibilities of "punk production". Idea work starts to emerge - in the reader of Idea Work.»Esa Saarinen, Professor of Applied Philosophy at the School of Science, Aalto University«Idea Work is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and – not least – practising everyday organizational creativity. The book's focus on collective creative practices is highly innovative and will prove invaluable to organizations that care about being on the leading edge of what they d...

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultural landmarks? And what can the best architects, oil explorers, business lawyers, journalists, and business developers within banking and trading analysis have in common?Idea Work can provide the answers. This book builds on a four-year research project and describes what extraordinary idea work looks like in practice. The authors take you behind the scenes of some of Norways leading companies and show how surprisingly similarly they work when they are working creatively to develop and realize new ideas. The book gives us, for example, a glimpse of how Snøhetta designed the Opera and the 9/11 memorial, and how explorers at Statoil discovered the most oil of all oil companies in the world in 2011. Narratives are presented on how prepping, sketches, pin-ups, drama, wonder, and punk are important aspects of the extraordinary. Examples are supported by theory, placing this book at the forefront of international research.Idea Work will appeal to practitioners as well as students. It recounts engaging stories from actual production processes and combines new theoretical perspectives with practical advice. It will also be of interest to anyone working with development, particularly with developing new ideas. From a professional standpoint, this book is an uncommon contribution to describing and understanding creativity as something collective and grounded in everyday activity.Idea Work is available in both English and Norwegian.Endorsements:«Prepare to be surprised. This book on idea work significantly enriches how we see, understand and do the everyday work of making ideas transformative. The book is simultaneously simple and profound, playful and serious, practical and theoretical. No doubt it will be useful and used by anyone who is curious about how ideas become real in everyday activities. The book both makes the process of idea work accessible and mysterious at the same time. No matter what your interest is in idea work, read a page, read a chapter, read the whole book - any engagement with the book will excite novel thought and practical advice - a rare and pleasing combination.»Jane Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan«A great addition to the literature on organizational creativity»Distinguished Research Professor Gareth Morgan, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto«Idea Work is a journey that makes you believe in the magic of ideas all over. It reminded me about what is best at work: creating something uniquely impactful with the help of daring wonder, some joint laughter and a little bit of anarchism for spice.»Välikangas Liisa, Professor in Organization and Management, Aalto University/Co-founder at Innovation Democracy«This book is an explosive package of insight, cutting edge methodology, ready-to-implement instruments and elevating inspiration. Exciting to glance and compelling to read systematically, the book walks its talk. It is perhaps the most uplifting and yet realistic book on organizational innovation and creativity I know. Deeply embracing the seemingly mundane actions of pratitioners in a number of different fields, the book is an empirically informed synthetic conceptualization of positively deviant organizational creativity. While scholarly impressive and highly useful as a guide to the frontiers of the research, the book entirely avoids the pitfalls of overtheorizing. The book sets your ideas in motion - and in ways that will take you by surprise. The book "activates the drama" of your internal angels of creativity, inspires your "craving wonder", will encourage you "to zoom out" and look with "daring imagination" for possibilities of "punk production". Idea work starts to emerge - in the reader of Idea Work.»Esa Saarinen, Professor of Applied Philosophy at the School of Science, Aalto University«Idea Work is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and - not least - practising everyday organizational creativity. The book's focus on collective creative practices is highly innovative and will prove invaluable to organizations that care about being on the leading edge of what they do.»Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, Chair of Major Programme Management, University of Oxford, author of «Making Social Science Matter»«It is a rare book that celebrates the life, passion, and wonder of ideas at work. It is a rare book that is as at home with professionals who long for sound practical advice about how to work with ideas more effectively, as it is with business scholars who long for sound theoretical abstractions to explain such work more sensitively and completely. It is a rare book about creativity that is itself creative in its form and style; that marries the vibrant nuances of real world stories with the incisive and compelling concepts of social science theory at its best. And it is a rare book that leaves readers - practitioner and academic alike - with the happy and even grateful sense of understanding a little bit more of the inexhaustible mystery of the human mind at work. This is that rare book.»Lloyd Sandelands, Professor of Management and Organizations & Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan«How refreshing to see a book that lives up to its word and succeeds in illuminating serious play in a seriously playful manner. A delight to read!»Professor Richard J. Badham, Macquarie Graduate School of Management«By exploring idea work in practice, Idea Work drafts a picture of innovation and creativity in the context of everyday work that very topically departs from perspectives centered on heroic narratives or project management techniques. It will offer a strong basis for further research as well as inspiration and reflexion for practice.»Professor Emmanuel Josserand, CMOS, University of Technology, Sydney«Great idea! The decision to examine the world of ideas and ideas at work was a great, well, idea. This is where it all starts. Management scholars have been recently obsessed with knowledge management, execution, competitive advantage and design. But before these processes enter the scene all that there is is an idea. With its sophisticated and distinctive Nordic touch, this book is not only mandatory read for those interested in the power of idea work, but also a beautiful object of design. A pleasure to the eye and to the mind.»Professor Miguel P. Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa«Innovation makes life duller in many organizations across the globe these days. A wonderful idea has transformed into a dominant management discourse, which stifles creativity and new ideas whereever it goes. It is for this particular reason that I was glad to read Idea Work. Rather than an managerialist pamphlet promoting another way for the top management to control their firms, it is a book about how real people work in search of new ideas. I envy the authenticity the authors reach in the case illustrations and enjoy the insights within the text. This book should be read by those interested in where ideas come from in organizations.»Professor Saku Mantere, Head of Department, Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics and Business Administration«The growing interest for practice based studies has found its way to creativity and innovation studies in this beautifully designed book Idea Work. Carlsen, Clegg and Gjersvik take an almost anthropological view on daily activities of those involved in idea creation in organizations. The empirical rich book provides the reader new, detailed and applicable understandings of how people in organizations engage, create, materialize, communicate, resist and realize ideas. Research on creativity and innovation has never been so 'down to earth' and inspire us to see creativity through a practice lens. The found qualities of idea work are valuable to both academics, students and practitioners in the field of creativity, innovation and design.»Professor Alfons van Marrewijk. Professor in Business Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam«In a world where ideas matter, where they come from, how they are generated and under what conditions they grow and ripen are important questions. This remarkable book does not have any single answer to these questions but many, because it is in the nature of 'idea work' that it can be structured and serendipitous, individualistic and collaborative, inspiring and banal. Yet the authors recognise that there is also a common thread in such work - it requires courage and the capacity for free and critical thinking to tackle the 'tyranny' of the blank page, not just the page that's already written. This is also the value of the book for business educators. We need to spend as much time on the rewards of taking risks as on the techniques and costs of managing them.»Professor Roy Green, Dean, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney«Reading this book enables us to appreciate that extraordinary idea work lies essentially in performing ordinary activities, in a whole range of work settings, extraordinarily - with love. Idea Work captures not just the dynamic processes that make the impossible possible. It arrests the magic of doing what we do for the love of it, and what it has the potential to create. A must read for anyone who cares to live a more fulfilling (working) life!»Elena Antonacopoulou, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at University of Liverpool Management School/Senior Fellow of Aim (the Advanced Institute of Management Research)«This book is a refreshing wonder! It integrates concern for producing practical advice with findings from careful research. It results from cooperation between academic researchers and people who are actually doing the work in companies. It focuses on creativity by groups of coworkers, not isolated individuals. And, it is written in beautifully understandable, straightforward language.»Professor In Residence Bill Starbuck, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon