Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/men-megaphone-employees-5794501/ Unfair managerial decisions can be a significant source of discontent among employees. Let us give an illustrative example from the world of football. In the previous season (2022-2023), Leicester...
Middle-Managerial Deviance as a Response to Structural Strain
Organizational members often thwart organizational norms through transgressing them, remaking them in new ways, or otherwise working around and through existing norms. Such forms of transgression, which we describe as deviance, have traditionally been examined in a...
Walling in and Walling out: Middle Managers’ Boundary Work
Managers’ work is largely a process of working across boundaries. In carrying out strategy, and in communicating workers’ needs and know-how, managers must work across hierarchical boundaries in which they represent and translate the experiences of different actors,...
What is the role of organizational rituals in the new management context?
Gazi Islam & Roberta Sferrazzo New management ideology and liberated companies Contemporary organizations are encouraging employees to find enjoyment in and through their work, promoting practices and discourse emphasizing employee self-realization, happiness,...