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This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting and self-propelling powers. Instead of seeing institutional emergence, change and decline as the result of actors’ interests and manipulations, this book re-establishes the importance of factors beyond human design and intervention. Drawing on process theory, it shows how ideas, norms and values can form self-stabilising configurations that affect people without conscious realisation. It complements current thinking about institutions by showing how institutions constitute people long before people constitute them. With the help of authors as diverse as Antonio Damasio, A.N. Whitehead, J.W. von Goethe and Max Weber, Elke Weik crafts a perspective that allows us to understand institutions as aesthetic and affective powers in their own right. This book is for researchers interested in process theory, institutional and organisational studies, hermeneutics, and aesthetics.

Theory of knowledge --- Aesthetics --- Sociology --- Economics --- sociologie --- economie --- esthetica --- kennisleer --- Organizational sociology. --- Occupations --- Aesthetics. --- Hermeneutics. --- Sociology of Organizations and Occupations. --- Sociological aspects.

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Krisenphänomene von psychischer Depression und Burnout über Arbeitslosigkeit, Schuldenberge und Börsencrashs bis zu Massenflucht und Umweltzerstörung alarmieren unsere Gegenwartsgesellschaft – die gleichzeitig Höchstleistungen auf vielen Gebieten feiert und ihren Reichtum genießt. Wohlstandsquelle und Krisenherd sind identisch: die moderne Ordnung der gesellschaftlichen Arbeit. Eingebettet in ein liberal-maskulines Verständnis von Freiheit und Gleichheit treibt die bewirtschaftete, besonders die kapitalistisch instrumentalisierte Arbeit in persönliche, soziale, ökonomische und ökologische Krisenlagen. Das essential erläutert strukturelle Hintergründe von Krisenereignissen des 21. Jahrhunderts und beschreibt, wie affirmative Erzählungen Realitäten moderner Arbeit überlagern und trivialisieren. Der Inhalt Von der Freiheit, die eigene Arbeitskraft zu vermieten Organisation als Leistungszentrum und Krisengebiet Wunder- und Zerstörungswerk Markt New Work – Aufschwung für Sinn und Sozialität? Die Zielgruppen Lehrende und Studierende der Soziologie, Psychologie, Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Führungskräfte und Consultants in Wirtschaft und Politik Der Autor Prof. Dr. Hansjürgen Arlt lehrt als Sozialwissenschaftler am Institut für Theorie und Praxis der Kommunikation der Universität der Künste Berlin.

Industrial sociology. --- Economic sociology. --- Organizational sociology. --- Occupations --- Sociology of Work. --- Economic Sociology. --- Sociology of Organizations and Occupations. --- Sociological aspects. --- Income distribution. --- Social classes. --- Marginality, Social.

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In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows organisations to react flexibly to changing environmental demands whilst also offering a ‘people' centered approach to management. While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective.The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or an organizational and institutional reaction to better deal with complexity and volatility. The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agility at the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and bringing together international scholars and different disciplines, which bring in different - sometimes contrary and more or less controversial views - on agile work, the project stimulates a comparative discussion. Sabine Pfeiffer holds the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany. Manuel Nicklich works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Stefan Sauer works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany.

Sociology of work --- Sociology --- Industrial economics --- Economics --- Business management --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- sociologie --- economie --- industrie --- management --- arbeid --- Work --- Flexible work arrangements. --- Industrial sociology. --- Organizational sociology. --- Occupations—Sociological aspects. --- Management. --- Sociology of Work. --- Sociology of Organizations and Occupations.

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This book examines the organisational culture of the Irish police service, speaking in particular to those interested in policing organisations and organisational culture. It is set against a backdrop of considerations such as community policing, police accountability, the management of change in Irish policing, and where the Irish police situates itself in relation to police organisations internationally. An Garda Síochána, the national police service of the Republic of Ireland, has a stated community policing style which focuses on an interactive relationship with the community and results in a largely unarmed policing organisation which makes it different to most police organisations. Yet, the author argues that the organisational culture has prevented them from embodying community policing across the organisation. Exploring the organisation’s historical context and how they are trained, this book draws on new research and data spanning 30 years including tribunals and reports to examine the organisational culture over time including potential misconduct, blame culture, and resistance to change within the organisation, in order to provide a more thorough understanding of a relatively unknown policing organisation. Courtney Marsh is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University, Belgium. Her main area of research is police organisational culture which has extended into the areas of gender and policing and cross-cultural studies in policing. Prior to this, she used her secondary expertise in Engaged Learning as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. .

Professional ethics. Deontology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Economics --- Criminology. Victimology --- sociologie --- economie --- maatschappij --- deontologie --- criminologie --- criminaliteit --- bedrijfsethiek --- Criminology. --- Crime --- Organizational sociology. --- Occupations --- Business ethics. --- Crime Control and Security. --- Crime and Society. --- Sociology of Organizations and Occupations. --- Business Ethics. --- Sociological aspects.

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This book is a comprehensive analysis of the various social science approaches to explaining and interpreting war, peace and the military. Its central aim is to trace and reconstruct those basic assumptions constructed and 'thought processes' undertaken by modern social sciences in their research and conceptualization of military violence and the use of force. In addition to such reconstruction, the aim is also to enquire into the preconditions of such thought. This study therefore eschews the development of an explicit 'strategy' (in the sense of a research strategy), but instead is much more concerned with thinking about its subject matter by means of re-thinking and reflecting upon different theoretical approaches and problems. The investigation includes a critical reexamination of the tradition of military-sociological research from the beginning of modern sociology to late-twentieth century theoretical approaches regarding the security-focused and/or war-driven aspects of modern society. The Author Dr. Franz Kernic is an Austrian sociologist and political scientist. Before retiring in 2022, he taught leadership at ETH Zurich and served as head of leadership and communication studies at the Swiss Military Academy. Before moving to Switzerland in 2013, he was Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Defence University and a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich (Germany) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He was also a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University in Santiago de Chile, University of Minnesota (USA) and Carleton University (Canada). .

Organizational sociology. --- Occupations—Sociological aspects. --- Political sociology. --- Military history. --- Sociology of Organizations and Occupations. --- Political Sociology. --- Military History. --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Political science --- Sociology --- Organization (Sociology) --- Organization theory --- Sociology of organizations --- Bureaucracy --- Sociological aspects --- Occupations --- Sociological aspects. --- Sociology of occupations