Managing 'human resources' by exploiting and exploring people's potentials [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mikael Holmqvist, André Spicer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459181803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley [England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-95908-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Collana: Research in the sociology of organizations, , 0733-558X ; ; v. 37
• Altri autori (Persone): HolmqvistMikael; SpicerAndré
• Disciplina: 658.3
• Soggetti: Personnel management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: FRONT COVER; MANAGING 'HUMAN RESOURCES' BY EXPLOITING AND EXPLORING PEOPLE'S POTENTIALS; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ADVISORY BOARD; DEDICATION; THE AMBIDEXTROUS EMPLOYEE: EXPLOITING AND EXPLORING PEOPLE'S POTENTIAL; INTRODUCTION; ENACTING THE ENVIRONMENT; THE QUEST TO ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY; IDEALIZING THE AMBIDEXTROUS EMPLOYEE; CONCLUSION; OUTLINE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE; REFERENCES; MAKING, BREAKING AND FOLLOWING RULES: THE IRVINE CASE; INTRODUCTION; E&E; THE SSS EXPERIMENT; SSS AS CRITIQUE OF E&E; CONCLUSION; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; IN PURSUIT OF THE AMBIDEXTROUS GRADUATE: POTENTIALITY BETWEEN EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATIONINTRODUCTION; MARCH'S CONCEPTS OF EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION IN RELATION TO THE THEME OF HUMAN POTENTIAL; THE RISE OF POTENTIALITY AS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RESOURCEFULNESS IN THE SPHERE OF EMPLOYABILITY; THE DANGER OF POTENTIALITY IN THE IMAGE OF THE INFINITELY AMBIDEXTROUS FUTURE WORKER; CONCLUDING REMARKS; NOTES; REFERENCES; BY HOOK OR BY CROOK: FLEXIBLE WORKERS BETWEEN EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; INTRODUCTION; INDIVIDUALIZATION AND FLEXIBLE KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MARCH MEETS MARX: THE POLITICS OF EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF LIFE AND LABOURINTRODUCTION; THE MARCHIST VIEW OF EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION; MARXIST VIEWS ON EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION; STUDYING THE POLITICS OF EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION AT THE INTERSTICES OF LEAN PRODUCTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION; THE OBJECTIVE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR IN LEAN PRODUCTION; THE OBJECTIVE EXPLORATION OF LABOUR AND THE SUBJECTIVE EXPLORATION OF LIFE; THE STRUGGLE TO OBJECTIVELY EXPLORE LABOUR AND SUBJECTIVELY EXPLORE LIFE; EXTENDING THE RE-SOCIALISATION AND SUBJECTIVE EXPLORATION OF LIFE THROUGH HEALTH PROMOTIONTHE SUBJECTIVE EXPLORATION OF LIFE IN CONTRADICTION WITH LEAN PRODUCTION; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; COORDINATION AND LEARNING IN WIKIPEDIA: REVISITING THE DYNAMICS OF EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATION; INTRODUCTION; WIKIPEDIA AND STANDARD ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS; WIKIPEDIA AS AN EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL PRODUCTION; THE EVOLUTION OF WIKIPEDIA; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; WORKLOAD, ASPIRATION, AND FUN: PROBLEMS OF BALANCING SELF-EXPLOITATION AND SELF-EXPLORATION IN WORK LIFE
• Sommario/riassunto: Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must both be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time as they must engage in exploration through playfulness, relaxed control and experimentation. The dilemma for organizations is a familiar one. But we know little about the human costs and challenges of ambidexterity. In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals' working lives. An international group of students of organizations and management analyze how employees are required to follow routines at the same

Art and thought / / edited by Dana Arnold and Margaret Iversen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019605403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., c2003
• ISBN: 9786611311230; 9781281311238; 1281311235; 9780470704301; 0470704306; 9780470774199; 0470774193; 9780470777336; 0470777338
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Collana: New interventions in art history ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): ArnoldDana; IversenMargaret
• Disciplina: 701
• Soggetti: Arts - History; Arts - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Aristotle, Titian and tragic painting / Thomas Puttfarken -- Wax, brick and bread : apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting / Jay Bernstein -- Kant and aesthetic imagination / Michael Podro -- Meaning, identity, embodiment : the uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history / Amelia Jones -- Art works, utterances and things / Alex Potts -- Art and the ethical : modernism and the problem of minimalism / Jonathan Vickery -- Does are think? How can we think the feminine, aesthectically? / Griselda Pollock -- What was postminimalism? / Stephen Melville -- Museum as work in the age of technological display : reading Heidegger through Tate Modern / Diarmuid Costello -- Eyes wide shut : some considerations thought and art / Adrian Rifkin.
• Sommario/riassunto: Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that ; explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.:.; Brings together newly commissioned essays that explore the relationship between the discipline of art history and movements in the history of western thought.; Considers the impact of the writings of key thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, on the way in which objects are perceived and understood and histories of art are constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured according to varying sets