Organization-Representation : Work and Organizations in Popular Culture
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| Title: | Organization-Representation : Work and Organizations in Popular Culture |
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| Description: | The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering new insights into the interaction between the popular images we create and receive, and the power relations that govern society, working life and culture. Representations in Hollywood movies, ethnographic and documentary films, children′s literature and the popular and `quality′ press replicate the power structures they supposedly describe and consequently help shape contemporary realities. This volume offers rich insights into the relations between culture, power and work. It goes beyond such purely ontological questions to show convincingly that a critical analysis of the relationship between popular culture and the nature of organizational life enhances our understanding of both. |
| Authors: | John Hassard, Ruth Holliday |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Organization in popular culture, Popular culture |
| Categories: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering new insights into the interaction between the popular images we create and receive, and the power relations that govern society, working life and culture. Representations in Hollywood movies, ethnographic and documentary films, children′s literature and the popular and `quality′ press replicate the power structures they supposedly describe and consequently help shape contemporary realities. This volume offers rich insights into the relations between culture, power and work. It goes beyond such purely ontological questions to show convincingly that a critical analysis of the relationship between popular culture and the nature of organizational life enhances our understanding of both. |
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| ISBN: | 9780761953920 9780761953913 9780857026095 9781446233634 |
