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{"title":"Hegemony and moralistic bullying in a contested UK public sector","authors":"Anita Garvey, Ewan Mackenzie","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2269589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2269589","url":null,"abstract":"How is workplace bullying morally legitimised in a contested public sector? This article makes an original contribution to workplace bullying scholarship through its focus on ‘moralistic’ bullying. The United Kingdom (UK) public sector has undergone significant changes propelled by neoliberal marketisation over four decades, purportedly to enhance competitiveness, financial accountability, and efficiency. These reforms coincide with a reported increase in public sector workplace bullying. Inspired by Gramsci’s [Gramsci, A. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Translated by Q. Hoare, and G. N. Smith. London: Lawrence and Wishart. (Orig. pub. 1947.)] concept of hegemony, we adopt a neo-Gramscian analysis of ‘moralistic’ bullying in this context. Drawing from a study of 25 self-identifying bullied targets in UK public sector organisations, we illustrate how moralistic bullying is legitimised through organisational processes propelled by market rationalities and financial imperatives. Our contribution highlights how moralistic bullying is legitimised inconspicuously amidst hegemonic conditions of neoliberal marketisation.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sensing the breakdown: managing complexity at the railway","authors":"Rebecca Cort, Jessica Lindblom","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2266857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2266857","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the complex and time-critical work practices within operational train traffic in Sweden by reporting on an incident causing an infrastructure breakdown and large traffic disruptions. Based on a workplace study approach, we report on how the control room workers – train traffic controllers and information officers – grasp, make sense of, and handle the consequences of the incident as it unfolds in real-time. We portray how the workers develop and acquire a sense of place in relation to the incident’s severity which is essential for successfully handling the situation. By introducing the ‘sense of place’ concept originally derived from the field of natural resources to the domain of operational train traffic, we provide a deepened understanding of the challenges characterising remote control work from a safety-critical socio-technical systems perspective. Finally, reflections on the application of the ‘sense of place’ concept, safety aspects and directions for future research are provided.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-reading Fatima Meer's <i>Prison Diary</i> and art through the lens of Saidiya Hartman's concept of ‘stealing away’","authors":"Lebohang Bidla","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2261134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2261134","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper interprets and analyses the concept of stealing away, as a redemptive act, that can be embodied in alternative modes such as writing, painting and drawing. The paper articulates how the pained body – which in this case is understood as the black body – emerges in an oppressive environment. This paper considers prison letters and artwork as redefinition, redress, and reconfiguration of the pained body. The core of this discussion is founded on how Fatima Meer steals away through her writing and artwork while she is imprisoned. These actions constitute self-affirmation over oppression which essentially exemplifies how Saidiya Hartman expresses stealing away as a concept. It is through acts of stealing away that Meer experiences embodied writing, which is about bringing the finely textured experiences of the body to the art of writing. In so doing the pained experiences of the body [Meer] are reclaimed from oppression through writing, drawing and painting.KEYWORDS: Artworksresistancestealing awayprisonpainwriting Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This piece of legislation served to declare the Communist Party of South Africa to be an unlawful organisation; to make provision for declaring other organisations promoting communistic activities to be unlawful and to prohibit certain periodical or other publications; to prohibit certain communistic activities; and to make provision for other incidental matters (Union of South Africa Citation1950)2 The African National Congress (ANC) is, at the time of writing, the governing party in South Africa, and has been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. The organisation was initially founded as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), on 8 January 1912, in Bloemfontein, with the aim of fighting for the rights of black South Africans (South African History Online, Citation20 March Citation2011).3 The uprising, on 16 June 1976, that began in Soweto and spread throughout the country, profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953 (South African History Online, Citation21 May Citation2013).4 The 1967 Terrorism Act was one of the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Although the Act's stated purpose was to facilitate the government's fight against ‘terrorists’, the police used the law to pursue and prosecute various organisations and individuals who resisted state control (South African History Online, Citation25 May Citation2021).5 Ismail Meer was Fatima Meer's husband, a prominent lawyer and anti-apartheid activist.6 Sibongile Kubeka was one of the detainees arrested and held in solitary confinement under section 6 of the Terrorism Act (Meer Citation2001).7 Cecily Palmer was one of the ","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The different shades of co-working spaces: how culture change explains the market rules","authors":"Aristides I. Ferreira, Nádia Pereira, Henrique Duarte","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2258430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2258430","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing a deeper understanding of the links between the multiple layers in organizational culture and the different Co-working characteristics. The research presented here develops a new taxonomy of Co-working spaces by integrating results from qualitative semi-structured interviews supported by previous theoretical and empirical research. We conducted interviews with 44 owners or founders of co-working spaces. A thematic analysis revealed three different approaches to co-working, namely a profit-oriented perspective, a community-oriented perspective and a hybrid pattern that combines both perspectives. Drawing upon the interaction models, our findings contribute to a better understanding of different Co-working cultures in an increasingly competitive market. Accordingly, future research should validate the proposed model with complimentary methodologies (e.g. questionnaires) and longitudinal designs to track how Co-working culture persists or changes over time.KEYWORDS: Co-workingcommunity-orientedorganizational cultureprofit-orientedqualitative Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research was supported in part by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [grant UIDB/00315/2020].","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135814493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emotional status and emotional labour: exploring the emotional labour among casualised and tenured knowledge workers","authors":"Sabina Pultz, Katia Dupret","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2258433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2258433","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWorking for Roskilde Festival is a dream come true for most of the employees there. In this paper, we apply Hochschild’s theoretical framework of emotional labour (EL) supplemented with recent contributions from affect theory which enables us to shed light on EL experienced by casualised and tenured professionals, respectively. Drawing on rich qualitative we contribute to making clearer how differences in work conditions are associated with different types of demands on emotional labour at the workplace. We aim to answer; what kind of emotional labour do casualised and tenured staff do? For each group, we identify patterns of EL relating to the temporality of a fixed term contract with varying demands on EL in the beginning, middle and towards the end of a contract. Identifying this pattern constitutes the main empirical contribution of the study. Such knowledge allows us to better mitigate the risks involved in relation to precarious employments.KEYWORDS: Employment statusemotional labouraffectivityprecarityprofessionalslabour market Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Innovationsfonden [grant number 51168].","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136058974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Researching culture and organization; what possibilities?","authors":"Hugo Letiche","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2256443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2256443","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTResearch into organizational culture seems to have come to a stillstand. In its heyday in the 1980s and 90s two crucial problems were voiced: (i) Is organizational culture really manageable? and (ii) Is organizational culture something an organization has (i.e. is it an identifiable variable) or something it is (i.e. is it an ontological prerequisite to the organization’s very ‘being’?). This article proposes that Aby Warburg’s ‘science without a name’ where ‘culture’ is identified with ‘ontology’ is a way out of what seems to be the current impasse in organizational culture research. Warburg conceptualized ‘culture as ontology’ as: M + P = N (Memory + Punctum = Notions that Abide). It will be argued that Viveiros de Castro’s current ‘turn-to-ontology’ in anthropology affirms the basic insights from Warburg’s ‘science without a name’ and is an inspiration for (re-)actualizing the M + P = N approach, with the understanding of ‘culture’ is informed by a Deleuzian ontology of repetition and difference.KEYWORDS: Organizational cultureAby WarburgM + P = NTurn-to-ontologyRepetition and differenceViveiros de Castro Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 Belonging to a prominent banking family himself, this surely is to be seen as self-referential.","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A game of futures: the strategy of scenarios in a Danish medical company","authors":"Andreas Lyse Brandt, K. T. Vangkilde","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2253954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2253954","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43014681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peer-to-peer guanxi and unethical practices: a dynamic examination based on cultural change in China","authors":"J. Kang, Yan Ling, L. Barclay","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2251166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2251166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45266240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parkour’s interactional organization. The paradoxes of media representations and how traceurs cope through non-representational strategies","authors":"Javier Toscano","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2243640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2243640","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flexible lives: spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries in a fluid world of work and home","authors":"Special Issue editors, M. Izak, Stefaine Reissner, H. Shortt","doi":"10.1080/14759551.2023.2211375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2211375","url":null,"abstract":"The world of work and home has become increasingly fluid (Bauman 2000), due to an increase in flexible working. Work has become decoupled from time and space (Gajendran and Harrison 2007), making it increasingly common for knowledge-based workers to work at different times and in multiple spaces across a working day or week (Duxbury et al. 2014; Sewell and Taskin 2015; Kingma 2016). The Covid-19 pandemic in particular has been a catalyst for questioning accepted norms of where, when, and how work takes place and has encouragedmany to experiment with new ways of working at spatio-temporal distance from a regular workplace (Gandini and Garavaglia 2023). This reshaping of traditional modes of working has had a significant effect on working patterns, social workplace interactions, personal relationships, and the boundaries between familial and working lives, which we seek to explore in this Special Issue. For many years, an increase in flexible working has reshaped traditional modes of working, both infringing on traditional associations between a place of work and its content and reorienting the spatial, temporal, and behavioural boundaries between work and non-work (Ashforth, Kreiner, and Fugate 2000). According to Basile and Beauregard (2021), technology has played a central part in these changes as we ‘feel compelled to stay “switched on” to work’ (36). As a result, the use of time, space, and objects in demarcating the work-nonwork boundary has become more flexible and fluid (Reissner, Izak, and Hislop 2021; Izak, Shortt, and Case 2022) than traditionally assumed. During the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home crossed the work-nonwork boundary frequently to attend to both professional and family roles. Largely fixed work schedules commonly led to struggles to fulfil this multitude of commitments (Adisa et al. 2022). An increase in remote and hybrid forms of working, which has been associated with an increase of labour productivity (Office for National Statistics 2022), and which is bound to continue (World Economic Forum 2020), has further highlighted spatial, social, and temporal shifts in our understanding of community at work (Spinuzzi et al. 2019; Garrett, Spreitzer, and Bacevice 2017), as well as the embodied practices of workers (de Vaujany and Aroles 2019). Specifically, there has been a trend towards individualization of working patterns as a result of flexible working, which may weaken the fabric of social relationships at work (Ajzen and Taskin 2021). If excessive, this trend may affect our sense of belonging (Vine, this issue). However, if the right balance is achieved, individualization may increase the collaborative capabilities of many organizations by, for example, enabling speedier teamwork or supporting the facilitation of employees who feel less comfortable interacting during face-to-face meetings (Farragher 2022, 35). Yet this still changes the landscape for how and where we work in this Covid-emergent world. For example, man","PeriodicalId":10824,"journal":{"name":"Culture and Organization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49654759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}