Managing the Work Situation outlines a perspective on how organization and management in the contemporary world of work happens as active everyday accomplishments by workers and managers, facing and handling complex work situations with an excess of expectations.

Based on philosophical and sociological phenomenology, notably Jean-Paul Sartre's and Erving Goffman's works, the book coins a situation-centric perspective on organization and management, and the concept of 'situational sensemaking', as the driving mechanism of organization as well as the focus of management - characterised as 'situation management'.

The book addresses an academic audience with interests in organization and management of work, both theoretically and practically. A prime audience will be (academic and executive) master students in organization and management.

About the Author

Lars Klemsdal is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His research interests include processes of organizing, management of organizational change and development, institutional change during public sector reforms, and sociological and organization theory. He is particularly concerned with foundational issues concerning agency and theories of knowledge in organization and management contexts. He works mostly through micro-sociological, pragmatist, and phenomenological approaches. He has served as part of the associate editor team of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies from its foundation in 2011 until 2016. He is currently serving as an associate editor of Journal of Organizational Sociology.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032777740
Author Lars Klemsdal
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd