This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue. The collection provides cross-disciplinary research on the discursive and mythological aspects of ageing at work as well as recent studies of the relationship between age and innovation, talent, careers, and workplace transitions. The book brings together authors from Europe, North America and Australia. By addressing current societal challenges and offering insights on ageing at work, this book will be of interest to those involved in human resource management, workplace organisation and the sociology of work.

This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures together offers a far deeper understanding of the issues of power, subjectivity and agency. Representing a growing interest in the contributions that feminist theorizing can offer to the study of organizations, this book focuses on issues of gender and resistance in organizations and, in particular, presents theorising which attends to the dualistic debate of compliance versus resistance to offer more generative understandings of reistance.

This exciting new text fills a gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view which raises questions about the imperative of change, whose interests are being served, how change programs impact employees, and why organizations continually engage in such programs. The authors provide an overview of: change management literature; types of change techniques over time (i.e. TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, etc.); the role of management gurus in the rise and fall of management fashions; the impact of organizational change on organizational members; ways to understand organizational resistance; and ways to use this understanding to overcome resistance.
Featuring vignettes of companies from both sides of the Atlantic, which have undergone some of the better-known change techniques, and explore the reasons for their successes and failures, readers are encouraged to question the validity of change for change's sake. This book is an innovative and important new text for students of organizational behavior, organizational change, strategy and HRM.
"*Supplemented with an accompanying website"

This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures together offers a far deeper understanding of the issues of power, subjectivity and agency.
Representing a growing interest in the contributions that feminist theorizing can offer to the study of organizations, this book focuses on issues of gender and resistance in organizations and, in particular, presents theorising which attends to the dualistic debate of compliance versus resistance to offer more generative understandings of reistance.

This book offers a unique way to understand the processes of organizational change. Its strength lies in two key areas:
* The discussion and explanation of a strategic sensemaking approach, for helping managers, management educators and students to understand organizational change
* A longitudinal study of a major company which underwent several organizational changes, revealing some of the key problems and challenges that managers face when introducing, implementing and managing change
Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Rather than being structured as a "how to" book, Making Sense of Organizational Change provides the reader with practical insights and skills for managing (or resisting) change.

This book offers a unique way to understand the processes of organizational change. Its strength lies in two key areas:
* The discussion and explanation of a strategic sensemaking approach, for helping managers, management educators and students to understand organizational change
* A longitudinal study of a major company which underwent several organizational changes, revealing some of the key problems and challenges that managers face when introducing, implementing and managing change
Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Rather than being structured as a "how to" book, Making Sense of Organizational Change provides the reader with practical insights and skills for managing (or resisting) change.

This exciting new text fills a gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view which raises questions about the imperative of change, whose interests are being served, how change programs impact employees, and why organizations continually engage in such programs. The authors provide an overview of: change management literature; types of change techniques over time (i.e. TQM, BPR, Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, etc.); the role of management gurus in the rise and fall of management fashions; the impact of organizational change on organizational members; ways to understand organizational resistance; and ways to use this understanding to overcome resistance.
Featuring vignettes of companies from both sides of the Atlantic, which have undergone some of the better-known change techniques, and explore the reasons for their successes and failures, readers are encouraged to question the validity of change for change's sake. This book is an innovative and important new text for students of organizational behavior, organizational change, strategy and HRM.
"*Supplemented with an accompanying website"

The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts, CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and, at times, challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research interests mark the CMS field as never before. Interrogating conventional critiques of management and arguing for fresh approaches, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies captures this intellectual ferment and new spirit of inquiry within CMS, and showcases the pluralistic generation of CMS scholars that has emerged in recent years. Setting the scene for a crucial period for the discipline, this insightful volume covers new ground and essential areas grouped under the following themes: Critique and its (dis-)contents Difference, otherness, marginality Knowledge at the crossroads History and discourse Global predicaments. Drawing on the expertise of an international team of contributing scholars, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies is a rich resource and the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of management and organization.

The scholarly field of Critical Management Studies (CMS) is in a state of flux. Against a backdrop of dramatic global shifts, CMS scholarship has lately taken a number of new and exciting directions and, at times, challenged older critical voices. Novel theoretical frameworks and diverse research interests mark the CMS field as never before. Interrogating conventional critiques of management and arguing for fresh approaches, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies captures this intellectual ferment and new spirit of inquiry within CMS, and showcases the pluralistic generation of CMS scholars that has emerged in recent years. Setting the scene for a crucial period for the discipline, this insightful volume covers new ground and essential areas grouped under the following themes: Critique and its (dis-)contents Difference, otherness, marginality Knowledge at the crossroads History and discourse Global predicaments. Drawing on the expertise of an international team of contributing scholars, The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies is a rich resource and the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of management and organization.