Managing 'Human Resources' by exploiting and exploring people's potentials / edited by Mikael Holmqvist, André Spicer.

Includes bibliographical references.

The ambidextrous employee: exploiting and exploring people's potential -- Making, breaking and following rules: the Irvine case -- In pursuit of the ambidextrous graduate: potentiality between exploration and exploitation -- By hook or by crook: flexible workers between exploration and exploitation -- "Some might cal it work ... but we don't": exploitation and the emergence of free work capitalism -- March meets Marx: the politics of exploitation and exploration in the management of life and labour -- Coordination and learning in Wikipedia: revisiting the dynamics of exploitation and exploration -- Workload, aspiration, and fun: problems of balancing self-exploitation and self-exploration in work life -- Outsourcing your life: exploitation and exploration in "the 4-hour workweek" -- Exploitation, exploration and exaltation: notes on a meaphysical (re)turn to 'one best way of organizing.'

In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals' working lives. The result is a rich and fascinating picture of individuals whose working lives are made up of a continued tension and struggle between the quest to be exploitative and explorative, and thus to remain an attractive and employable subject on the labour market.