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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Rok 2003 
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Consilio Manuque: The Learning Organization Paradigm and the Problem of Unity

Graham Symon
Department of Human Resource Management, Luton Business School, UK

2003 2 (2) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Abstrakt

This paper draws on literature in the fields of organizational studies, industrial relations, and industrial sociology to attempt to address 'new paradigm' managerial initiatives that espouse sentiments of unitarism in their discourse from a UK perspective. The specific focus of this theoretical investigation is the output of the proponents of the 'Learning Organization'. It is argued that in such organizations, employers attempt to control and induce behavioural change in employees through the use of reorganization and instrumental discourse. Managerial commentators and theorists have written much about what the implementing agents' expectations are of the outcomes of such organizational initiatives. Among these expectations is that the new initiative will bring about a radical change in attitudes in the workplace and that unitarism will prevail. However, an as yet underdeveloped area of study is what happens when the subjects (i.e. employees) receive the initiative, the potential for counter-ideology and resistance to the initiative, and the forms resistance may take. It is these latter two issues that this paper concentrates on. Ultimately, the paper seeks to present a conceptual investigation of pluralism within, and the nature and implications of resistance in, the Learning Organization. An allusion to Beaumarchais' `Figaro' is used to illustrate the arguments.

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APA style

Symon, Graham (2003). Consilio Manuque: The Learning Organization Paradigm and the Problem of Unity. (2003). Consilio Manuque: The Learning Organization Paradigm and the Problem of Unity. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 2(2), 36-54. (Original work published 2003)

MLA style

Symon, Graham. „Consilio Manuque: The Learning Organization Paradigm And The Problem Of Unity”. 2003. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, t. 2, nr 2, 2003, ss. 36-54.

Chicago style

Symon, Graham. „Consilio Manuque: The Learning Organization Paradigm And The Problem Of Unity”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 2, nr 2 (2003): 36-54.