The Mechanisms of Agile Management

Auteur

Klara-Aylin Wenten is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel. She has obtained her PhD at the Technical University of Munich, where she was a scholar of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. Her research interests include feminist Science and Technology Studies, affect theories, new work and digitalization and emancipatory technologies. Her current research project on Emotion AI explores the tensions between AI technologies, emotions and emerging power dynamics.

Texte du rabat

This book is about the underlying mechanisms of agile management that control work processes in the context of industrial tech development. The volume will appeal to an academic audience ranging from the humanities and social sciences to more practice-based disciplines in management and business.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Foundations of Management Scripts 3. Methods and Analytical Framework for Studying Management Scripts 4. Scripted Improvisation: Creating Calculable Employees 5. Scripted Intimacy: Creating Committed Employees and Mechanizing Emotion Work 6. Scripted Ranking and In/Visible Work 7. The Mechanisms of Agile Management and Their Inherent Ambivalences