Managing the employee's soul: Foucault applied to modern management technologies

This paper presents an alternative approach to analyse power in modern organisations. It does so by applyingFoucauldian concepts to new types of management technologies, which are directed at the employee's personality. Most often, studies of power and management focus on organisational structu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaspar Villadsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas
Series:Cadernos EBAPE.BR
Subjects:
HRM
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-39512007000100002&lng=en&tlng=en