Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization - Inside the Factory of the Future

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola promoted amongst its employees, how employees adapted to managerial changes, specifically the elimination of large-scale management, and where the 'managerless' system came under strain. This book will be of essential reading for researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in the areas of management studies, human resource management, and organizational studies, among others.

List of contents

1. The Will to Empower: Governing the Workplace 2. Working for the Yankee Dollar 3. Greenfield Site, Green Labour? 4. ‘Not just Another Number’: Empowerment, Discipline and Teamworking Freedom 5. Confession, Discipline and Freedom 6. ‘Just Like Any Other Factory’

Product details

• Authors: Alan Mckinlay, Alan (Kathryn Haynes Is Northern Society Mckinlay, McKinlay Alan, Philip Taylor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9780415749053
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74905-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Organizational theory & behaviour, Research & development management, Personnel & human resources management, Sociology: work & labour, Engineering: general, Production & quality control management, Manufacturing industries, Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Research and development management, Production and quality control management, Hi-Tech Manufacturing Industries