Art and Aesthetics at Work

Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood. Bringing together the work of an international spectrum of academics, this collection contributes, in an overall more critical vein, to such emerging debates. Combining both empirical and theoretical material, each chapter re-evaluates the emerging relationship between art, aesthetics and work, exploring its potential as both a medium of critical analysis, and as a site of conflict and resistance.

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CATRINA ALFEROFF Research Assistant, Department of Management, Keele University MARY-ELLEN BOYLE Assistant Professor, Clark University's Graduate School of Management GIBSON BURRELL Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Warwick ORVILLE BUTLER Auburn Washington GEORGE CAIRNS Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Strathclyde KAREN DALE Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour, University of Warwick RON GILARDI Vice President for Academic Affairs, La Roche College, Pittsburgh NANCY HARDING Senior Lecturer in Health Policy Management, University of Leeds TAMAR JEFFERS PhD Candidate, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University ASTRID KERSTEN Professor of Management, La Roche University, Pittsburgh DAVID KNIGHTS Professor of Organisational Analysis & Head of the School of Management, Keele University NICK NISSLEY Assistant Professor at the University of St Thomas, Minneapolis STEVE TAYLOR Lecturer in Change Management, University of Bath

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Preface; A.Carr & P.Hancock PART 1: ART AND AESTHETICS AS A WAY OF KNOWING ORGANIZATION Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization; A.Carr & P.Hancock Art as a Form of Knowledge; A.Carr Looking Into/Out Of Organisations Through the Rear Window: Voyeurism and Exhibitionism in Organization Studies; G.Cairns & T.Jeffers Reconciling Aesthetics and Justice in Organization Studies; M.Boyle PART 2: WORK AS AN AESTHETICALLY ORDERED ACTIVITY Introduction; P.Hancock & A.Carr We're All Partying Here: Target and Games, or Targets as Games in Call Centre Management; C.Alferoff & D.Knights The Power of Organizational Song; N.Nissley, S.Taylor & O.Butler On the Manager's Body as an Aesthetics of Control; N.Harding PART 3: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH AESTHETICS AT WORK Introduction; P.Hancock & A.Carr The Barren Landscape: Reading US Corporate Architecture; A.Kersten & R.Gilardi An-aesthetics and Architecture; K.Dale & G.Burrell Aestheticizing the World of Organization; P.Hancock