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“Organization Theory:  Genealogy and Neglected Themes”

“Organization Theory:  Genealogy and Neglected Themes”. STEWART R CLEGG. Overview: Theories lost in action. Reading Max Weber Translations from America Situating Weber Weber is not a classical management theorist Weber’s obscurity Weber’s theory Rationality The will to power

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“Organization Theory:  Genealogy and Neglected Themes”

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  1. “Organization Theory: Genealogy and Neglected Themes” STEWART R CLEGG

  2. Overview:Theories lost in action • Reading Max Weber • Translations from America • Situating Weber • Weber is not a classical management theorist • Weber’s obscurity • Weber’s theory • Rationality • The will to power • Weber’s domination and Parsons’ authority • Domination and organization • The discipline of organization • The absent Erving Goffman • Situating Goffman • Total institutions • Authority at work • The absent Zygmunt Bauman • Total institutions and genocide • Organizational efficiencies • Gender and total institutions • The Stolen Generation • The German Democratic Republic • Abu Ghraib

  3. Max Weber

  4. Reading Weber • The importance of Talcott Parsons • Defining terms • Weber is not a classical management theorist • Kantian & Hegelian auspices, rather than Utilitarianism • Weber’s obscurity • Weber’s theories of rationality • Weber’s domination & Parsons’ authority • Domination and organization • Thomas a Beckett as an example • Discipline & organization

  5. Discussion issues • What was Weber’s impact on the emerging organization theory in the 1950s and why and in what ways was it limited? • Taylor, Follett, Mayo, Weber … do we need to be bothered with these ‘classical’ figures? If so, why? • Why did Weber not figure in the emerging organization theory consensus about power from the 1950s onwards?

  6. Erving Goffman • The neglected importance of Asylums • Total institutions • Identity management

  7. Goffman and Foucault: similar themes? • Psychological experiments • Milgram • Zimbardo

  8. Zygmunt Bauman

  9. The Holocaust

  10. Theorizing the Holocaust, organizationally • The Holocaust as an example of bureaucratic rationality • The roots of evil • The Final Solution • Identity and Power • Expert knowledge • Efficiencies • An open system • Resisting the Final Solution • Organization overcoming humanity • Barbarism and modern organization

  11. More total institutions • Gendering the gaze • Comparing Foucault and Goffman on surveillance • The Magdalene Laundries

  12. ‘Race’ and totalization • The Rabbit-Proof Fence

  13. Totalizing a society: The GDR • The Berlin Wall

  14. ‘An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism’

  15. Twenty ways to construct total institutional power relations

  16. Discussion issues • What, if any, are the sounds of silence that a society such as Mexico has to confront in relation to the organization of its nation building past? • Are total institutions merely a part of an unenlightened history that we have progressively transcended? • Why are the ‘twenty rules’ important for all managers to be aware of?

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