Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1177/13505084231207987
Genevieve Shanahan
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1177/13505084231204102
Anukriti Dixit
How can socially privileged researchers engage with as well as analyse marginalising discourses without co-opting the experiences and knowledges of marginalised communities? This inquiry forms the focus of the present article. I discuss the lack of accountability for ‘upper’ caste academics and the resulting impunity for us as ‘knowledge’ producers. I explain how I acknowledge(ed) my complicity in maintaining and reproducing the caste-system and worked towards evolving ethical research practices. A form of inquiry called ‘self-problematisation’ is invoked herein as a ‘practice of the self’, in which researchers must ask ourselves what we come to problematise and what is left unproblematic in our work? This analysis has relevance for questions of ethics and the politics of knowledge production. I appeal to the researchers pondering on questions of positionality and privilege to ask – what can we ‘speak’ about when we speak of (caste) privilege and how must we confront the assumptions of ‘superiority’ in the ‘knowledge’ produced through us?
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1177/13505084231203635
Angelo Benozzo
{"title":"Book review: Corpi (Dis)organizzati: Etica lavoro e organizzare femminista [Disorganized bodies: Ethic work and feminist organizing] by Daniela Pianezzi","authors":"Angelo Benozzo","doi":"10.1177/13505084231203635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231203635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135387085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1177/13505084231199196
Martin Parker
{"title":"Recipes for alternative organizing","authors":"Martin Parker","doi":"10.1177/13505084231199196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231199196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1177/13505084231198449
Emma Perriton
This article explores the emergence of sociomaterial practices and control dynamics of open office spacing by emphasising the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. With a Baradian approach to and agential realist ontology of sociomateriality, the article aims to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of working together by rethinking the conventional notions of and relations between groups and space. An ethnographic field study uncovers how sociomaterial grouping practices emerge and intraact through the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. Insights from this study show how these grouping practices are reconfigured in three different yet intraactive ways: as cultural, hierarchising and belonging practices. Further, the observations reveal how grouping practices produce control in new ways in the form of sociomaterial control through the visibility, transparency and materiality of open spacing, which carry implications for the design and collaborative organising of open offices, including privacy, embodied experiences, informal hierarchy, power relations and feelings of belonging, particularly for newcomers.
{"title":"The constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping: The production of sociomaterial control","authors":"Emma Perriton","doi":"10.1177/13505084231198449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231198449","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the emergence of sociomaterial practices and control dynamics of open office spacing by emphasising the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. With a Baradian approach to and agential realist ontology of sociomateriality, the article aims to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of working together by rethinking the conventional notions of and relations between groups and space. An ethnographic field study uncovers how sociomaterial grouping practices emerge and intraact through the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. Insights from this study show how these grouping practices are reconfigured in three different yet intraactive ways: as cultural, hierarchising and belonging practices. Further, the observations reveal how grouping practices produce control in new ways in the form of sociomaterial control through the visibility, transparency and materiality of open spacing, which carry implications for the design and collaborative organising of open offices, including privacy, embodied experiences, informal hierarchy, power relations and feelings of belonging, particularly for newcomers.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135202919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1177/13505084231198432
Richard Longman
{"title":"Lockdown stories (un)told: Challenging official narratives through working class solidarity","authors":"Richard Longman","doi":"10.1177/13505084231198432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231198432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135202921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1177/13505084231195435
Kobe De Keere
Hiring is an act of evaluation that comes with much organizational and social responsibility, making it a morally sensitive situation. The way employee gatekeepers come to terms with their selections presents itself as an exemplary case to study the moral dimension of organizational life. Relying on a pragmatist perspective and an economies of worth framework, this article uncovers how employers experience moral uncertainty and justify their choices. Through a comparison of gatekeeping in two employment fields, this study covers new ground on how decision logics and regimes of valuation play out and can be structurally conditioned. Through in-depth interviews, combined with a ranking exercise based on video-elicitation, with recruiters and hiring managers from the corporate (n: 23) and cultural (n: 17) fields in the Netherlands, this paper explores how evaluation processes and selections are justified. The interviews show that a sense of moral unease is common among gatekeepers, but much more prevalent among corporate rather than cultural gatekeepers. Larger organizational size, high market pressure and lower supply of candidates does not translate into moral sterility for corporate gatekeepers. Second, the study reveals that a connexionist logic enters as a powerful justificatory regime, transforming candidate selection procedures into test of confession.
{"title":"Justifying employee gatekeeping: A video-elicitation and comparative study on resolving the moral unease of hiring","authors":"Kobe De Keere","doi":"10.1177/13505084231195435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231195435","url":null,"abstract":"Hiring is an act of evaluation that comes with much organizational and social responsibility, making it a morally sensitive situation. The way employee gatekeepers come to terms with their selections presents itself as an exemplary case to study the moral dimension of organizational life. Relying on a pragmatist perspective and an economies of worth framework, this article uncovers how employers experience moral uncertainty and justify their choices. Through a comparison of gatekeeping in two employment fields, this study covers new ground on how decision logics and regimes of valuation play out and can be structurally conditioned. Through in-depth interviews, combined with a ranking exercise based on video-elicitation, with recruiters and hiring managers from the corporate (n: 23) and cultural (n: 17) fields in the Netherlands, this paper explores how evaluation processes and selections are justified. The interviews show that a sense of moral unease is common among gatekeepers, but much more prevalent among corporate rather than cultural gatekeepers. Larger organizational size, high market pressure and lower supply of candidates does not translate into moral sterility for corporate gatekeepers. Second, the study reveals that a connexionist logic enters as a powerful justificatory regime, transforming candidate selection procedures into test of confession.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47131132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084231186236
Jean-Philippe Deranty, Carl Rhodes, Ruth Yeoman
This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technological change. We then consider the demands for new meanings and new valuings that the manifold disputed status of work formulates. Finally, we highlight the contributions the four pieces making up this special section give to that momentous question of whether work has a future.
{"title":"Does work have a future? The need for new meanings and new valuings of work","authors":"Jean-Philippe Deranty, Carl Rhodes, Ruth Yeoman","doi":"10.1177/13505084231186236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231186236","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction to the special section “Does Work Have a Future?” begins by reviewing the main ways work stands at the crossroads today. We identify three core disputes with the potential to disrupt the future of work but which also harbor resources for affirmative futures of work: the precariousness of work and lives under existing economic arrangements; the emergence of care work as a source of social and environmental value; and technological change. We then consider the demands for new meanings and new valuings that the manifold disputed status of work formulates. Finally, we highlight the contributions the four pieces making up this special section give to that momentous question of whether work has a future.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"30 1","pages":"799 - 808"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43528812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/13505084221145592
Craig Reeves, Matthew Sinnicks
This paper attempts to show how Adorno’s thought can illuminate our reflections on the future of work. It does so by situating Adorno’s conception of genuine activity in relation to his negativist critical epistemology and his subtle account of the distinction between true and false needs. What emerges is an understanding of work that can guide our aspirations for the future of work, and one we illustrate via discussions of creative work and care work. These are types of work which cater to persistent human needs, albeit ones that are distorted under present social conditions. Adorno’s thought helps us to understand why this is the case.
{"title":"Needs, creativity and care: Adorno and the future of work","authors":"Craig Reeves, Matthew Sinnicks","doi":"10.1177/13505084221145592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145592","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to show how Adorno’s thought can illuminate our reflections on the future of work. It does so by situating Adorno’s conception of genuine activity in relation to his negativist critical epistemology and his subtle account of the distinction between true and false needs. What emerges is an understanding of work that can guide our aspirations for the future of work, and one we illustrate via discussions of creative work and care work. These are types of work which cater to persistent human needs, albeit ones that are distorted under present social conditions. Adorno’s thought helps us to understand why this is the case.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"30 1","pages":"851 - 872"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41496548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}