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1. Identity, Feeling and Sociality at Work

   Affective Organizing

   By David Grant, Rick Iedema, Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   The aim of this book is to examine the ways that contemporary organizing draws increasingly on the affective dimensions of worker sociality. The book explores the different ways that such kinds of affectivity have come to the fore in the contemporary ‘post-bureaucratic’ modes of work that...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Organizations and Popular Culture

   Information, Representation and Transformation

   Edited by Carl Rhodes, Simon Lilley

   Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

   By Carl Rhodes, Robert Westwood

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as...

   Published December 31st 2008 by Routledge
4. Humour, Work and Organization

   Edited by Robert Westwood, Carl Rhodes

   Accessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent character of humour, work and comedy as it relates to organizations and organized work. It examines the various individual, organizational, social and cultural means through which humour...

   Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge
5. Management Ethics

   Contemporary Contexts

   Edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Carl Rhodes

   Ethics has become big business but have businesses become ethical? This is a central question for today’s managers. Managing ethics is critical in an era characterized by unprecedented corporate power and a myriad of competing ethical traditions. Giving new insights into the...

   Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
6. Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner

   Pedagogy and Identity in Individual, Organisational and Social Change

   By Clive Chappell, Carl Rhodes, Nicky Solomon, Mark Tennant, Lyn Yates

   How is adult learning used to produce personal, organisational and social change?This interesting examination of adult learning for change illustrates through diverse case studies and theoretical perspectives that personal change is inextricably linked to broader organisational and social change....

   Published October 1st 2003 by Routledge
7. Research and Knowledge at Work

   Prospectives, Case-Studies and Innovative Strategies

   Edited by John Garrick, Carl Rhodes

   This fascinating and controversial text makes sense of the complexities of research in the workplace and how 'working' knowledge is constructed. Featuring experts from Britain, Japan, North America and Australia, it is an outstanding contribution to the literature of Human Resource Management (HRM)...

   Published May 3rd 2000 by Routledge