Rethinking misbehavior and resistance in organizations [electronic resource] /
edited by Alison Barnes and Lucy Taksa.
- Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 257p.) : ill.
- Advances in industrial & labor relations, 19 0742-6186 ; .
- Emerald eBook Series - Business, Managment & Economics with title Volumes From 2011 to 2015 (405) (Recent Backlist) Advances in industrial and labor relations ; 19. .
Even More Mis / Stephen Ackroyd -- Still “Staying Loose in a Tightening World”? Revisiting Gerald Mars Cheats at Work / Louise Thornthwaite, Peter McGraw -- Naming, Condoning, and Shaming: Interpreting Employee Assessments of Behavior and Misbehavior in the Workplace / Lucy Taksa -- Mr Taylor Goes to Hollywood: Misbehavior in Film and TV / George Lafferty -- On the Cold War Front: Dissent, Misbehavior, and Discursive Relations at Pan American Airways Guided Missiles Division / Christopher M. Hartt, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills -- Incorporating Institutionalism: Reconceptualizing the Resistance and Misbehavior Binaries / Tony Dundon, Diane van den Broek -- Customer Service Work and the Aesthetics of Resistance / Alison Barnes -- Customers Behaving Badly! / Lawrence Ang, Scott Koslow -- Exploring Entrepreneurship as Misbehavior / Erik Lundmark, Alf Westelius -- Misbehavior, its Dimensions, and Relationship to Commitment in Organizations / Gordon Brooks.
This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior by looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. Reconsidering misbehavior from a range of different perspectives and disciplinary traditions, including history, employment relations, sociology, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, legal studies and film studies, chapters examine behaviors not only of workers but also of managers, entrepreneurs and consumers. The book begins with an overview by one of the leading scholars of misbehavior, Stephen Ackroyd, who reviews the study of the phenomenon, followed by conceptual reconsideration of the relationship between misbehavior and resistance in a changing industrial landscape. The remainder of the book traverses dimensions of misbehavior and resistance across time and geographical space through a number of case studies that examine behaviors in a range of different places, industries and sectors. In this way it extends analysis to actors outside of the workers who have largely been the focus of existing studies. The volume will add to the emerging body of evidence that disturbs assumptions of consensus and conformity in organizations.