The Illusion of Management Control: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Managerial Technologies

Book Overview

PART I: THE (SELF-) MANAGEMENT OF THE EMPLOYEE Cash, Codes and Complexity: New Adventures in the Public Management of Pay Scales Information and other Bodily Functions PART II: THE (SELF-) MANAGEMENT OF THE CITIZEN Hybrid Inclusion - Multiple Inclusion Mechanisms in the Modernised Organisation of Danish Welfare Services Citizens Contracts as a Tricky Steering Media 'Watching the market' - Visual Representations of Financial Economy in Advertisements PART III: THE STRATEGIFICATION OF THE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION Structural Couplings Between Organizations and Function Systems The Polyphonic Effects of Technological Changes in Public Sector Organizations The Time of Money, Soziale Systeme Market as a Political Future Epilogue

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349323624
• ISBN13: 9781349323623
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"