Managerial Government Structures, Threatening Power
Fridlender, Jean-Marc
Managerial Government Structures, Threatening Power - 2009.
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This paper aims at unraveling the soft constraint produced through the managerial model of remote control that is the very subject matter of decentralized government structures distant from post-bureaucratic organizations. Drawing on different theoretical approaches from organizational sociologies to Foucault in the conception of power, this work analyzes the managerial structures of government in order to achieve a deeper understanding of interactive psycho-organizational processes which foster managerial power. Uncertainty characterized post-bureaucratic management and the subjectivity of individuals has become a disciplinary resource to drive the managerial power of control. Through forms of autonomy that arise within managerial structures, individuals collectively produce a threatening constraint which appears to be a powerful means to standardize their own behavior. The psycho-social dimension of managerial control operates through a government system based on a simultaneous increase in pleasure and angst. Its disciplinary action changes from authoritarian and prohibitive to incentive and inhibitive principles.
Managerial Government Structures, Threatening Power - 2009.
99
This paper aims at unraveling the soft constraint produced through the managerial model of remote control that is the very subject matter of decentralized government structures distant from post-bureaucratic organizations. Drawing on different theoretical approaches from organizational sociologies to Foucault in the conception of power, this work analyzes the managerial structures of government in order to achieve a deeper understanding of interactive psycho-organizational processes which foster managerial power. Uncertainty characterized post-bureaucratic management and the subjectivity of individuals has become a disciplinary resource to drive the managerial power of control. Through forms of autonomy that arise within managerial structures, individuals collectively produce a threatening constraint which appears to be a powerful means to standardize their own behavior. The psycho-social dimension of managerial control operates through a government system based on a simultaneous increase in pleasure and angst. Its disciplinary action changes from authoritarian and prohibitive to incentive and inhibitive principles.
Réseaux sociaux