Brad C Anderson – författare

Management, from a critical perspective.Critical management Studies provide a assessment against prevailing social order and management and are designed to produce better managers and fairer organisations.This Series brings together informed critiques of management, business and organization, grounded originally in critical theory perspectives.Titles included in this set:Organizing Disaster:The Construction of Humanitarianism;Organization Theory:Critical and Philosophical Engagements;Contesting Institutional Hegemony in Today's Business Schools:Doctoral Students Speak Out;The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management:A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices;Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience:A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada;STEM-Professional Women's Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry:Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space;Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom:A Case Study of a Canadian Healthcare Authority;

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority. The study's exploration of how to spread innovation through a healthcare system will help readers to gain insight into why groups resist change and how individuals can exercise their values, rationality, and power to overcome this resistance. Presenting a framework to conceptualize and study wisdom, the book identifies that values guide wise action, that knowledge is required but insufficient for wisdom, and finally that wisdom is action-oriented. The results of the case study demonstrate the power that values possess to drive organizational behaviour. Offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and power interact in a real social setting, the book explores how these interactions can both drive and resolve conflict, but also create positive change. Through this understanding, academic and students of management and organizations can create a discipline of scholarship and teaching that fosters the development of organizational wisdom.