Authority and Autonomy Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

About the author

SUSANNE EKMAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. She is primarily interested in the complex relationship between freedom and ethics and has recently pursued this issue ethnographically in the context of contemporary knowledge work.

Summary

Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.

Product details

• Authors: S. Ekman, Susanne Ekman
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2012
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration
• EAN: 9781349345434
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34543-4
• Pages: 253
• Illustrations: VII, 253 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 1.3 x 1.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 355 g
• Subjects: B, Planning, Leadership, Human Resource Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Public Relations, Behavioral Economics, Corporate Communication, Knowledge Management, Behavioural economics, Organizational theory & behaviour, business strategy, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Personnel Management, Experimental Economics, Management science, Business Strategy and Leadership, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, interaction;methods;organization;organizations