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Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management (Paperback)
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Beyond Rationality in Organization and Management (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies
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Spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, the writers considered in
this first book of the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in
Organization Studies series make an important contribution to how
we think about rationality in managing, leading and working. It
provides a space in which to think differently about rationality,
challenging dominant masculine logics while positioning relations
between people centre stage. A critical and intellectually
provocative text, the book provides a nuanced and practical account
of rationality in organizational contexts, making it clear that
women have and continue to write groundbreaking work on the
subject: women like Lillian Moller Gilbreth, who was at the
forefront of developments in scientific management, and Frances
Perkins, who was the first female US cabinet secretary. Both are
important not only for what they achieved but also as illustrations
of the ways in which women have been written out of the accounts of
managing and management thought. This matters not only because
credit is denied to those who deserve it, but also because it
impoverishes our understanding of complex organisational
phenomenon. Where so much extant writing on managing and organizing
is preoccupied with abstract notions of structure, strategy,
metaphor and machines, the writers considered here explain why
effective working and managing is primarily about seeing and
working with people. Writers such as Arlie Hochschild, Mary Parker
Follett and Heather Hoepfl remind us that rationality cannot be
decoupled from emotion or, where a system is to be rationalised,
then it should start with and enhance the lives of people - be
designed with people at the centre. In this sense, the book is not
arguing for a wholesale rejection of rationality. Rather, authors
call on readers to move beyond a preoccupation with rationality for
its own sake, seeing it instead as a useful and highly contestable
aspect of organizational life. Each woman writer is introduced and
analysed by an expert in their field. Further reading and
accessible resources are also identified for those interested in
knowing more. This book will be relevant to students, researchers
and practitioners with an interest in business and management,
organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies
and sociology. Like all the books in this series, it will also be
of interest to anyone who wants to see, think and act differently.
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