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Passage 96Discussion Questions 102Introduction References 103Recommended Further Readings 103CHAPTER 6 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 105Introduction 105Reading 6.1: Human Resource Management Rhetorics and Realities 109Reading 6.2: Planning for Personnel? HRM Reconsidered 112Reading 6.3: Foucault, Power/Knowledge, and its Relevance for Human Resource Management 117Reading 6.4: Developing a Tactical Approach to Engaging with Strategic HRM 118Discussion Questions 121Introduction References 121Recommended Further Readings 121CHAPTER 7 LEADERSHIP AND SYMBOLISM 123Introduction 123Reading 7.1: Conceptualizing Leadership Processes: A Study of Senior Managers in a Financial Services Company 127Reading 7.2: Leadership and the Management of Meaning 132Reading 7.3: Symbols and Symbolic Behaviour: Definitions and Distinctions 136Discussion Questions 138Introduction References 138Recommended Further Readings 138CHAPTER 8 POWER, CONTROL AND RESISTANCE 141Introduction 141Reading 8.1: Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the 20th Century 145Reading 8.2: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations 146Reading 8.3: Strategies of Resistance: Power, Knowledge and Subjectivity in the Workplace 150Reading 8.4: Foucault, Power, Resistance and All That 153Discussion Questions 157Introduction References 157Recommended Further Readings 157CHAPTER 9 TECHNOLOGY 159Introduction 159Reading 9.1: Introduction: Understanding Innovation, Organizational Change and Technology 161Reading 9.2: Caught in the Wheels: The High Cost of Being a Female Cog in the Male Machinery of Engineering 164Reading 9.3: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power 166Reading 9.4: Formal Organization as Representation: Remote Control, Displacement and Abbreviation 168Reading 9.5: Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the E-economy 170Discussion Questions 175Introduction References 175Recommended Further Readings 175CHAPTER 10 METHODOLOGY 177Introduction 177Reading 10.1: Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction 179Reading 10. 2 : Doing Critical Management Research 181Reading 10. 3 : Refocusing the Case Study: The Politics of Research and Researching Politics in IT Management 184Reading 10. 4 : Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research 184Reading 10. 5 : Coming to Terms with the Field: Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography 186Reading 10. 6 : After Method 188Reading 10. 7 : Manufacturing the Employee: Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries 190Discussion Questions 193Introduction References 193Recommended Further Readings 193CHAPTER 11 INEQUALITY AND DIVERSITY 195Introduction 195Reading 11. 1 : Deconstructing Organizational Taboos: The Suppression of Gender Conflict in Organizations 199Reading 11. 2 : The Best is Yet to Come? : Searching for Embodiment in Management 203Reading 11.3: The Emperor has No Clothes: Rewriting Race in Organizations 206Reading 11.4: The Hidden Injuries of Class 210Discussion Questions 211Introduction Reference 211Recommended Further Readings 211CHAPTER 12 IDENTITY 213Introduction 213Reading 12.1: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organisations 215Reading 12.2: The Stakes 221Reading 12.3: When the Sleeper Wakes: A Short Story Extending Themes in Radical Organization Theory 225Discussion Questions 230Introduction References 230Recommended Further Readings 231CHAPTER 13 CONSUMPTION 233Introduction 233Reading 13.1: From the Work Ethic to the Aesthetic of Consumption 236Reading 13.2: Organisation Theory, Consumption and the Service Sector 241Reading 13.3: Consumption and Identity at Work 244Discussion Questions 248Introduction References 248Recommended Further Readings 249CHAPTER 14 POSTMODERNISM 251Introduction 251Reading 14.1: Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction 254Reading 14.2: Deconstructing Organizations 257Reading 14.3: Organization Theory in the Age of Deconstruction: Dualism, Gender and Postmodernism Revisited 261Discussion Questions 265Introduction References 265Recommended Further Readings 265CHAPTER 15 CORPORATE ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITY 267Introduction 267Reading 15. 1: Business, Ethics and Business Ethics: Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics 270Reading 15. 2 : Limits to Anthropocentrism: Toward an Ecocentric Organization Paradigm? 273Reading 15. 3 : Shifting Paradigms for Sustainable Development: Implications for Management Theory and Research 278Discussion Questions 284Recommended Further Readings 284CHAPTER 16 GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE SOCIALRESPONSIBILITY 285Introduction 285Reading 16. 1 : Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism 288Reading 16. 2 : Towards a Political Conception of Corporate Responsibility: Business and Society Seen From a Habermasian Perspective 293Reading 16. 3 : Structures, Identities and Politics: Bringing Corporate Citizenship into the Corporation 301Discussion Questions 303Introduction References 304Recommended Further Readings 304INDEX 305