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Power without Glory - A Genealogy of a Management Decision (Paperback)
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Power without Glory - A Genealogy of a Management Decision (Paperback)
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Power without Glory demonstrates the use of Foucault's conception
of power in organizational analysis. It does this in two ways:
first by developing a method for studying power in organizations,
namely genealogy; and secondly by conducting a case study according
to the principles in this method. The purpose is to highlight some
aspects of Foucault's conception of power, which has not been
sufficiently explored in organizational analysis. Most studies
using a Foucauldian framework have focused on the relations between
power and surveillance in organizations. This book takes a
different approach and claims that a sufficient understanding of
power is only possible by exploring the links between archaeology,
genealogy, and power. This is supported by the fact that Foucault
claimed that his conception of power was not really a theory of
power, but the analytics of power, where the aim was to show how
power works in practice. This point is crucial in that the most
exciting aspects of Foucault's concepts and methods have to do with
the ways in which they allow one to gain new understandings of
reality. Such new understandings depend on showing how power works
both in constructing truth and in excluding other truths. The book
discusses how a decision made in a bank is subjected to
genealogical scrutiny. The research presented covers change
processes over a period of more than six years. The defining moment
of these changes is when management decides to implement a new
functional and a new geographical division of labor. The case study
unravels the history of this decision and its effects on the
workforce. The case study also shows how the change process
evolved, the feelings and actions of those involved at the various
stages, and the different ideas, concepts, strategies, and
techniques.
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