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The Paradox of Control in Organizations by Philip Streatfield (Hardcover, 2001)

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This book explores a central paradox in an organization. Business leaders are supposed to be 'in control' of the situation in which their businesses find themselves, so if an unexpected event occurs they are supposed to be able to declare that 'things are under control'. The worst thing that any business leader or manager can do is to declare that they are 'not in control' of a situation. But how can organizational leaders and managers be expected to control matters entirely out of their hands, such as the next action a competitor takes, or the next law a government may pass? Who, or what is 'in control' in an organization? The author attempts to shed light on these questions by exploring his own day-to-day management experiences of life in a large pharmaceutical organization, SmithKline Beecham. The book is about the dymamic, continually changing formation of patterns of relationships in organizations, through which managers get their work done. Philip Streatfield approaches actual management practice from a complexity perspective, understanding organizational like as primarily informal, self-organizing, and transformative in nature. In adopting the perspective of complex responsive processes developed in the first two volumes of this series, the author takes self-organization and emergence as integral themes in his thinking about life in organizations. Conversation is placed at the centre of the way humans develop their sense of reality and this book explores, using actual personal experiences, how managers construct their reality in conversation. The notion that the manager is 'in control' does not resonate with experience. In practice, managers find that they live with the paradox of being 'in control' and 'not in control' simultaneously. It is this capacity to live with paradox, the courage to continue to participate creatively in spite of 'not being in control', that constitutes effective management.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9780415250313
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Subject Area
Organizational Sociology
Author
Philip Streatfield
Publication Name
The Paradox of Control in Organizations
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
174 Pages

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234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
386g

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Philip Streatfield
Series Title
Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
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United Kingdom

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