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Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management de Matt Vidal

Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management

Autor Matt Vidal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mar 2022

În volumul Management Divided, Matt Vidal propune un model teoretic ambițios, intitulat „economia politică organizațională”. Putem afirma că acest cadru este esențial pentru a înțelege de ce organizațiile moderne eșuează adesea în a-și atinge potențialul maxim: autorul demonstrează cum managementul este fragmentat între necesitatea de a impune disciplina și imperativul de a stimula creativitatea. Merită menționat că, deși studiul se ancorează în realitățile industriei manufacturiere americane, modelul său de analiză este perfect aplicabil în domenii diverse, de la dezvoltare software până la sistemul sanitar.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Vidal utilizează o perspectivă marxistă pentru a explica ineficiența sistemică. Cititorul va învăța cum presiunile pentru flexibilitate și îmbunătățire continuă intră în coliziune cu tendințele manageriale de a limita autonomia angajaților. Dacă Work Organisations de Paul Thompson v-a oferit cadrul teoretic general al sociologiei muncii, această carte oferă instrumentele practice de analiză a tensiunilor dintre de-calificare și supra-calificare în economia contemporană. De asemenea, spre deosebire de The Dark Side of Management, care explorează istoria secretă a disciplinei, lucrarea lui Vidal se concentrează pe mecanismele structurale care forțează managerii să aleagă soluții suboptimale.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera autorului. Dacă în The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx acesta a coordonat o privire de ansamblu asupra influenței marxismului, iar în Comparative Political Economy of Work a explorat relațiile de muncă la nivel global, Management Divided sintetizează aceste preocupări într-o critică aplicată a managementului resurselor umane. Este o lectură densă, riguroasă, care transformă concepte abstracte în instrumente de diagnoză organizațională.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198795278
ISBN-10: 0198795270
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru specialiștii în HR și teoreticienii organizaționali care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile ineficienței în companii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care controlul excesiv blochează inovația și veți învăța să identificați contradicțiile structurale care împart managementul în tabere opuse. Este un argument solid pentru nevoia de împuternicire reală a forței de muncă în fața schimbărilor tehnologice rapide.

Despre autor

Matt Vidal este un cercetător recunoscut în domeniul sociologiei muncii și al economiei politice, activând în sfera academică cu un interes marcat pentru teoria procesului de muncă. Expertiza sa este consolidată de contribuții majore în literatura de specialitate, fiind editorul lucrării The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx și autorul unor studii comparative de amploare precum Comparative Political Economy of Work. Interesele sale de cercetare se concentrează pe intersecția dintre management, relații industriale și inegalitate, oferind analize critice asupra modului în care sistemele capitaliste organizează și disciplinează munca în secolul XXI.

Descriere

One of the central dynamics shaping organizations today is a contradiction managers face between ensuring workforce discipline and harnessing worker creativity. This contradiction has been intensifying over the last four decades as employee involvement has become increasingly important in response to rapid technological change, requirements for flexibility, and demands for continuous improvement. In manufacturing, global best practice includes lean production with substantive worker empowerment; cross-training in enlarged tasks and inclusion in problem solving and decision making. Yet, many managers instead face these conflicting pressures by training workers in narrow tasks and using them exclusively for manual labor. In this richly evidenced study of American manufacturing, Matt Vidal presents a synthetic theory called 'organizational political economy', integrating concepts from organization theory into a classical marxist framework. This theory emphasizes how contradictory developments - conflicting pressures and competing logics of labor management - lead management to be divided. Some managers adopt best practice by substantively empowering their workforce while others settle for good enough. Capitalist management is increasingly a source of organizational inefficiency. This argument is not limited to manufacturing. Managers experience contradictory pressures - for standardization versus discretion, deskilling versus upskilling - in a wide range of occupations including education, healthcare, software development, and many more.

Recenzii

Matt Vidal has written a book that reveals a new understanding on both workforce and supplier development. His research is impeccable. The managers and workers he interviewed opened up and provided detail that outlined the subtleties and dilemmas of human resource management and supply chain management.
A superb piece of engaged scholarship, helping us make sense of the tensions and ambiguities of the capitalist workplace. Compelling material from the shop-floor, combined with deep, path-breaking theory. Sets a new standard for research on management and organizations.
A lucid and provocative intervention into the debates about 'lean' production, drawing on Marxist theory, organizational sociology, and rich empirical data from original fieldwork in dozens of U.S. factories. Management Divided is an important contribution to labor sociology and to critical management studies.
The major contribution of this book is to shift labour process analysis from the control/resistance/consent framework to a broader perspective, where managers are not just concerned with controlling labor, and workers are not just resistors, but seek meaning through work, while remaining suspicious of management. It lays bare the structural dilemma for management through the capitalist production of inefficiency -- where managerial satisficing is a response to contradictory pressures to give workers more input into decision-making to enhance their creativity while needing to ensure workforce discipline.
The logic of lean production has overwhelmed economic institutions, from industry to retail to health care and beyond. In this book, Matt Vidal has torn away the curtain of lean production, revealing its internal contradictions and opening up a vital discussion of the challenges workers and managers now face. A must read.
Matt Vidal's book, which builds on a series of essays by the author, represents a thought-provoking contribution to critical management and labor process research. The starting point of Management Divided is the observation that the field of critical research on the labor process needs a management theory that it does not yet possess...Vidal's management theory is also a theory of lean production as a specific production regime.
Management Divided is a lesson in theory building. It develops a complex theory of labour management and production models...Altogether, this book represents one of the very few that explicitly integrates organisational and industrial analysis, with a theory of competition as well as workplace relations. Vidal connects deep structural contradictions with organisational theory, production models, managerial agency, worker alienation and the capitalist production of inefficiency.
This important book sees Matt Vidal bring a refreshingly rigorous application and synthesis of Marxist, institutional and organisational sociological theory to rich fieldwork on American lean production...Its empirical depth will render the book a definitive account of lean production.
Vidal has written an engaging book built upon an impressive body of data. He provides readers lengthy original passages that allow them to get a sense for daily routines and form their own conclusions...Students of the labor process have much to gain from Management Divided and it deserves debate.
Vidal has written a very stimulating book that fills a gap, especially with respect to a critical theory of management within the framework of labor process theory. The book represents an important step away from a pure control-resistance model of organization... Also to Vidal's credit is that his theory brings together labor process theory with institutionalist approaches. His book will be a must read for the further debate on lean production and management. What makes the book particularly interesting is the wealth of empirical material.
Management Divided is a unique book for its ability to bring together different theoretical approaches and levels of analysis and is a stimulating and engaging read for all scholars interested in management, organizations and work.
By raising this issue of permissive competition and inefficiency, ... Vidal refreshes not only LPT and the sociology of work but economic sociology and organizational more broadly. Paradigm-making questions like these are urgently needed for our field. In Management Divided, Vidal brings a critical and realistic eye to this daunting task.

Notă biografică

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. He is author of Organizing Prosperity (with David Kusnet) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (with Paul Prew, Tomás Rotta and Tony Smith) and Comparative Political Economy of Work (with Marco Hauptmeier). He has published over twenty articles or book chapters on work, human resource management, employment relations, labor markets, comparative political economy, and social theory. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.