Managing the work situation : a phenomenological approach to organization and management in a complex world of work

"Managing the Work Situation outlines a perspective on how organization and management in the contemporary world of work happens as active everyday accomplishments by workers and managers, facing and handling complex work situations with an excess of expectations. Based on philosophical and soc...

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Main Author Klemsdal, Lars (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003484677
1003484670
9781040319383
1040319386
9781040319314
1040319319
9781032777740
9781032777306
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • A working life with an excess of expectations
  • Part 1: situations
  • Situational sensemaking
  • Agency in context
  • The context of (work)situations
  • Part 2: organization(s)
  • Organization as an outcome of situational sensemaking
  • Organization(s) as input to situational sensemaking
  • Part 3: management
  • (de)coupling of management and managers
  • Managing the organization of the new town hall
  • Situation management.