{"product_id":"power-at-work-1","title":"Power at Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eProviding detailed insights into working life, McCabe, a well known author in the fields of organization studies, labour process theory and critical management studies offers a distinctive approach to innovation in the work place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this ethnography of a major US bank he argues that many innovations associated with the ‘new’ corporation seem to reproduce many of the conditions that we associate with the industrial age such as hierarchy, the division of labour, task specialization and command and control approaches to management. Through exploring strategy, technology, teamwork and culture change programmes in a contemporary organization, McCabe demonstrates the debilitating consequences of these interventions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores a range of questions, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDo employees who are treated as machines become machines?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow do they cope with work that regards them as less than human?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDo managers dream of electric staff?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat are the consequences of such thinking and are there alternative ways to organize work in the twenty- first Century?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccessible to numerous levels: undergraduate, MA and MBA, this book is an excellent resource for those studying business and management, organization studies, sociology of work, employee relations, psychology of work and strategy. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262316695896,"sku":"9780415417976","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415417976_93180ce6-18f9-4eae-887d-83f1b8a1bce1.jpg?v=1769722213","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/power-at-work-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}