Hidden Attractions of Administration (Record no. 63002)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Åkerström, Malin, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Hidden Attractions of Administration |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Taylor & Francis |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (170 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This 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 ethnographic studies consisting of over 200 qualitative interviews and participant observations from ten 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 anEigendynamik: 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. |
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| Uncontrolled term | Administration |
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| Uncontrolled term | Administrative Work |
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| Uncontrolled term | Attractions |
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| Uncontrolled term | Bureaucratization |
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| Uncontrolled term | Documents |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Andersson Cederholm, Erika |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jacobsson, Katarina |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wästerfors, David |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47882/1/9781000392272.pdfhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47882">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47882/1/9781000392272.pdfhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47882</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |