LEADER 03815oam 2200565 450 001 9910476829903321 005 20231204161507.0 010 $a1-00-310843-1 010 $a1-000-39228-7 010 $a1-003-10843-1 035 $a(CKB)5590000000463029 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000463029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7245317 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000463029 100 $a20221224d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHidden attractions of administration $ethe peculiar appeal of meetings and documents /$fMalin A?kerstro?m [et al.] 205 $aFirst Edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d[2021] 215 $a1 online resource (170 pages) 311 0 $a0-367-62227-0 327 $aEigendynamik -- The administration society -- Seductive gatherings -- Sneaky work and aways -- A spark of magic -- Beauty and boost -- Spirals of meetings and documents -- Dramatizing administrative skills -- Muddy transparency -- The devotion to teaching -- Magic, emotions and morality. 330 $aThis book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today's working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations - those formally working for clients, patients, or students - to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints and laments about 'too many meetings' or 'too much paperwork'. There is something appealing to those compelled to participate in today's constantly multiplying and expanding administration that defies popular framings of it as merely pressure from above. Hidden Attractions of Administration shows in detail the emotional attractiveness, moral conflicts, and almost magical features that administrative tasks often entail in today's organizations, supported by an ethnographic study consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and participant observations from 10 organizational settings and contexts across Sweden. The authors also question and complement explanations in administration-related research that have previously been taken for granted, arguing that it is a simplification to attribute all aspects of the change to New Public Management and instead taking into account what the classic sociologist Georg Simmel called an Eigendynamik: a self-reinforcing tendency that, under certain circumstances, needs only a nudge in an administrative direction to get going. By applying ethnography to issues of bureaucratization and meeting cultures and by drawing on findings in emotional sociology and social anthropology, this volume contributes to both the sociology of work and the study of human service organizations and will appeal to scholars and students working across both areas. 606 $aHuman services personnel 606 $aEthnology$xFieldwork$zSweden 606 $aHealth services administration$zSweden 606 $aPolice administration$zSweden 606 $aPublic institutions$zSweden 606 $aSocial work administration$zSweden 615 0$aHuman services personnel. 615 0$aEthnology$xFieldwork 615 0$aHealth services administration 615 0$aPolice administration 615 0$aPublic institutions 615 0$aSocial work administration 676 $a305.800723 700 $aA?kerstro?m$b Malin$01271713 702 $aJacobsson$b Katarina 702 $aAndersson Cederholm$b Erika$f1965- 702 $aWa?sterfors$b David 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476829903321 996 $aHidden Attractions of Administration$92995778 997 $aUNINA