Managing Identity

Alison Pullen

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN: 9781349524594, 9781403947703
• eBook ISBN: 9780230511644
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Downsizing, delayering, corporate liposuction, lean manufacturing, empowerment, knowledge management and networked organization have shaken traditional assumptions about management to their foundations. Postmodern conditions have fragmented established identity resources and created a crisis of managerial self-confidence. Drawing on detailed qualitative studies and theory on gender and power to explore the impact of recent changes on managers' identities and their responses in constructing new and multiple identities, Managing Identity develops much needed models for evaluating shifts from modern to postmodern management and new managerial subjectivities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Managing Identity
• Chapter 2 Restructuring Middle Management
• Chapter 3 Management in Three Movements: Theorizing Middle Managers’ Subjectivities
• Chapter 4 Rewriting Power and Gender Into the Management of Meaning and the Meaning of Management
• Chapter 5 “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”: Hierarchy and Networking in Carlux
• Chapter 6 Seduction in Nylons
• Chapter 7 “Why Not Take All of Me?”: Achievement & Commitment in Larts
• Chapter 8 Disrupted Identities in a Still-Organized World
• Appendix 1 Research Methodology
• Appendix 2 Research Methods
• Author Index
• Subject Index