ORGANIZATIONAL OLYMPIANS by Monika Kostera (Editor) ( 9780230583580 )

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Title:

ORGANIZATIONAL OLYMPIANS
HEROES AND HEROINES OF ORGANIZATIONAL MYTHS

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Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£70.50
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ISBN 10:

023058358X

ISBN 13:

9780230583580

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

25 June, 2008

Description:

The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations. Attitudes and temperaments, as well as professional ethos, are narrated and mythologized to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.

Synopsis:

Myth typically brings to mind something not true, a false belief or erroneous idea -- or else tales of the spiritual domain. As the first volume in a series of three exploring the role of myth in contemporary organizational practice, Organizational Olympians looks at myths as part and parcel of our everyday organizational lives. Myth is present in the now, even in such an everyday setting as the workplace and in such an essential activity as business management. Many uses of mythology pertain to the individual actors: heroes and heroines. Most notably they tell us about roles people play in organizations (such as loners, leaders, subordinates) but also of how different types of social actors (such as women, and people from Eastern Europe before 1989) play a key role in organizations, of how attitudes and temperaments can be made sense of mythically, and of professional ethos.

Illustrations:

5, 3 black & white tables, 2 figures

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

Returns:

Non-returnable

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