Critical perspectives on organization and management theory / edited by Linda Smircich and Marta B. Calás..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Organization Theory: A Reassessment / William G. Scott -- 2. Differential Recruitment and Control: The Sex Structuring of Organizations / Joan Acker and Donald R. Van Houten -- 3. Organizations: A Dialectical View / J. Kenneth Benson -- 4. Criticisms of the Dominant Perspective on Organizations / Mary Zey-Ferrell -- 5. Paradigms, Metaphors, and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory / Gareth Morgan -- 6. Practical and Emancipatory Interests in Organizational Symbolism: A Review and Evaluation / Ralph Stablein and Walter Nord -- 7. What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Functions of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production / Stephen A. Marglin -- 8. The Failure of Current Applied Behavioral Science - A Marxian Perspective / Walter R. Nord -- 9. Bravermania and Beyond: Recent Theories of the Labour Process / Craig R. Littler and Graeme Salaman -- 10. Domination and Technological Change: A Review and Appraisal of Braverman, Marglin, and Noble / Michael Hillard --

11. Hewers of Cake and Drawers of Tea: Women, Industrial Restructuring, and Class Processes on the Coalfields of Central Queensland / Katherine Gibson -- 12. Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line / William E. Thompson -- 13. Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and Dominance / Michael Rosen -- 14. "Engineering Humour": Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-floor Relations / David L. Collinson -- 15. The Concept of Organization / Egon Bittner -- 16. The Machiavellian Princess: Rhetorical Dramas for Women Managers / Jolene Koester -- 17. Leaders, Managers, Entrepreneurs On and Off the Organizational Stage / Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and Rolf Wolff -- 18. The Child is "Father" to the Manager: Images of Organizations in U.S. Children's Literature / Virginia C. Hill and Guy B. Adams -- 19. Leadership: The Management of Meaning / Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan --

20. Communication to Self in Organizations and Cultures / Henri Broms and Henrik Gahmberg -- 21. Beyond the Surrogate of Motivation / Burkard Sievers -- 22. The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models / Joyce Rothschild -- 23. The Problem of Authority in Radical Movement Groups: A Case Study of Lesbian-Feminist Organization / Andrea J. Baker -- 24. The Disintegration of an Organization: A Dialectical Analysis / A. J. Grimes and J. R. Cornwall -- 25. Women Workers in the Mondragon System of Industrial Cooperatives / Sally L. Hacker and Clara Elcorobairutia.

This volume questions the organization of knowledge in organization studies that emerged afrer World War II. It calls into question the managerialist view of what organizations are, how they should be conducted, and how they should be studied. The authors of the essays included here represent a diversity of views: neomarxist, labour process, symbolic, feminist.

Together they question the epistemological choices that were made; they articulate other paradigmatic paths that could have been taken; and they provide alternative forms of knowledge production. Colletively they forward a view of organizations not as rational and efficiency seeking, but as sites of inequalities and resistances, where meanings and interpretations are contested, reflecting the wider tensions among diverse interest groups within society.