Heather Höpfl
Biographic Data
| ID | 148496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Höpfl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Höpfl |
| SIGNATURE | HÖPFL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Essex Business School, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A gendered perspective on Learning to Labour
This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same period as Willis's study: which, of course, is specific to young men. Consequently, the paper reflects on the implications of class location and life chances, on the social engineering experimentation of …
Catholicism
It is helpful to begin this discussion with some thoughts on the meaning of the term Catholicism. The word catholic comes from two Greek words, kath holou, which mean ‘of the whole’ (Cunningham, 2009, p. 3) or ‘general, total, complete and perfect’ (Dulles, 1985, p. 14). In the first century, the term ‘catholic’ referred to the community of the whole church rather than the individual house churches of the small communities which made up the Chris…
Belief and Organization
Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizati
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
Good order: On the administration of goodness
Architecture and organization: Structure, text and context
This special issue seeks to take an imaginative look at notions of organizational structure and to draw on architectural perspectives in order to examine prevailing definitions of the notion of str
Reflections of Medusa
It is early in November 2006, and I am in Trento in northern Italy as the guest of Professor Antonio Strati. I am here to spend six weeks at the university working with his Masters course and contributing to the doctoral programme. We have an apartment belonging to the university near the river and a short walk from the Palazzo Albere which houses the Museum of Modern Art. On this particular evening we are going to visit an exhibition of the work…
Sacred Heart: A comment on the heart of management
The literary and artistic image of the Sacred Heart is well known within Roman Catholic iconography and more generally. It is the object of a special devotion and symbolizes love and compassion. In the context of the special issue, this article is concerned with some aspects of the imagery of the heart. It briefly traces the history of the symbolism of the heart from ancient times and then gives specific attention to the imagery of the Sacred Hea…
The Codex, the Codicil and the Codpiece: Some Thoughts on Diminution and Elaboration in Identity Formation
This article is about the way in which the processes of diminution and elaboration can be detected in gendered accounts of identity formation. Firstly, it considers the ways in which power is denied to women through a series of reductions, restrictions and controls, and looks at the ways in which men, in contrast, elaborate their identities via a range of enlargements and extensions. The codex of the title refers to the role of the ‘Law’, in Kris…
Frame
This paper is concerned with the most basic, etymological notion of art. It is not concerned with high art, or narrow definitions of fine art. It is not concerned with art as representation. It is about art as process. In seeking to find an appropriate frame of reference, art in this context is more to do with the skill of the artisan than the usual rarefied notions of art which make all works of art, grand or banal, parodies of themselves: alway…
Artaud and the Corruption of Judgement
To read about the life of Antonin Artaud and to study his writings is a difficult task. His work, although lucid, does not make for comfortable reading. His mental disintegration is as distressing as it is inevitable. The major concerns in his writing have great eschatological connotations: heaven, hell, death and judgement. He is a man of extremes. His attempts to theatricalise his personal anguish and to find expression for inner experience is …
The Organisation and the Mouth of Hell
FLESH ‘We are now beginning a two week consultation period—but let me say this [finger raised for emphasis)—if you are not for this project [dramatic pause) you ought to be looking for a move elsewhere’. (Announcement preceding a post‐1992 university restructuring, April 2002) ‘Hang on. I am just parking the car. I am walking into the building. I am now entering the mouth of hell...’ (Conversation with a friend who was calling from his mobile pho…
The Mystery of the Assumption: Mothers and Measures
The Aesthetics of Organization
'The Aesthetics of Organization' examines the possibility of developing an aesthetics of organization as a field of inquiry within organization studies
On being moved
All transient things are but a parable; the insufficient here becomes actuality; here the ineffable is achieved; the Eternal-Feminine draws us onwards. Goethe, Faust Part II Lines 12104 – end. Translation Luke, D. 1964 Goethe, Selected Verse, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörst du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? My father, my father, do you not hear, What the Erl King is quietly promising me? Goethe, The ErlKönig
The Suffering Mother and the Miserable Son: Organizing Women and Organizing Women's Writing
This paper examines the contribution of the writing of Julia Kristeva (1941– ) to post‐structuralist ideas about gender in organizations. In particular, it deals with the relationship between her writing and the disciplining of text and, by a parallel movement, with her writings about the body and the regulation of the body. However, it must be said that her writings are ‘extremely difficult and complex, and certainly intimidating and inaccessibl…
The Melancholy of the Black Widow
Authority and the pursuit of order in organizational performance
The paper seeks to examine the site of performance, the spatial context of the dramatic act, and to consider the various ways in which performance is regulated, ordered and sustained. In particular, the paper is concerned with the relationship between authority and propriety in the regulation of the performance site and with the transformational metaphors which sustain the trajectory of the performance. The basic premise on which the argument res…
Performance and customer service: The cultivation of contempt
The theatrical analogy in descriptions of organisational life has enjoyed a prominent position over many years and continues to offer insights into behaviour in a wide variety of roles and contexts. In this paper, the use of the dramaturgical accounts of organisational behaviour is subjected to specific scrutiny in order to give attention to the construction of the theatrical persona and its implications for performance. The paper provides insigh…
Organisational rhetoric and the threat of ambivalence
Safety Culture, Corporate Culture: Organizational Transformation and the Commitment to Safety
Draws attention to contextual variables in the development and management of safety cultures. Examines the relationship between corporate culture change and safety management and considers the implications for safety of the manipulation of values and beliefs as part of corporate motivation. Considers the extent to which the development of a safety culture is compatible with the development of a corporate culture. Examines the following areas, the…
A Commitment to Change: Safety Management in BritishAirways
Provides an account of the changes which have taken place in British Airways Safety Services since 1990 and comments on the ways in which a commitment to safety was conceived and interpreted and how changes in the development and promotion of the safety philosophy and style of operation of the Safety Services Unit have brought about significant change. Considers management commitment to safety and the way this has been illustrated in the developm…
Commitments and Conflicts: Corporate Seduction and Ambivalence in Women Managers
Examines gender differences in relation to organizational commitment. It considers the ways in which corporate culture attempts to seduce employees into commitment via the construction of appearances and values. The satisfactions which men derive from work appear to make them more susceptible to the construction of particular frames of organizational behaviour and, in this sense, commitment can be viewed as a consensual interpretation of appropri…
The Codex, the Codicil and the Codpiece: Some Thoughts on Diminution and Elaboration in Identity Formation
This article is about the way in which the processes of diminution and elaboration can be detected in gendered accounts of identity formation. Firstly, it considers the ways in which power is denied to women through a series of reductions, restrictions and controls, and looks at the ways in which men, in contrast, elaborate their identities via a range of enlargements and extensions. The codex of the title refers to the role of the ‘Law’, in Kris…
The Suffering Mother and the Miserable Son: Organizing Women and Organizing Women's Writing
This paper examines the contribution of the writing of Julia Kristeva (1941– ) to post‐structuralist ideas about gender in organizations. In particular, it deals with the relationship between her writing and the disciplining of text and, by a parallel movement, with her writings about the body and the regulation of the body. However, it must be said that her writings are ‘extremely difficult and complex, and certainly intimidating and inaccessibl…
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
The Organisation and the Mouth of Hell
FLESH ‘We are now beginning a two week consultation period—but let me say this [finger raised for emphasis)—if you are not for this project [dramatic pause) you ought to be looking for a move elsewhere’. (Announcement preceding a post‐1992 university restructuring, April 2002) ‘Hang on. I am just parking the car. I am walking into the building. I am now entering the mouth of hell...’ (Conversation with a friend who was calling from his mobile pho…
Frame
This paper is concerned with the most basic, etymological notion of art. It is not concerned with high art, or narrow definitions of fine art. It is not concerned with art as representation. It is about art as process. In seeking to find an appropriate frame of reference, art in this context is more to do with the skill of the artisan than the usual rarefied notions of art which make all works of art, grand or banal, parodies of themselves: alway…
A gendered perspective on Learning to Labour
This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same period as Willis's study: which, of course, is specific to young men. Consequently, the paper reflects on the implications of class location and life chances, on the social engineering experimentation of …
Authority and the pursuit of order in organizational performance
The paper seeks to examine the site of performance, the spatial context of the dramatic act, and to consider the various ways in which performance is regulated, ordered and sustained. In particular, the paper is concerned with the relationship between authority and propriety in the regulation of the performance site and with the transformational metaphors which sustain the trajectory of the performance. The basic premise on which the argument res…
Sacred Heart: A comment on the heart of management
The literary and artistic image of the Sacred Heart is well known within Roman Catholic iconography and more generally. It is the object of a special devotion and symbolizes love and compassion. In the context of the special issue, this article is concerned with some aspects of the imagery of the heart. It briefly traces the history of the symbolism of the heart from ancient times and then gives specific attention to the imagery of the Sacred Hea…
The Mystery of the Assumption: Mothers and Measures
Commitments and Conflicts: Corporate Seduction and Ambivalence in Women Managers
Examines gender differences in relation to organizational commitment. It considers the ways in which corporate culture attempts to seduce employees into commitment via the construction of appearances and values. The satisfactions which men derive from work appear to make them more susceptible to the construction of particular frames of organizational behaviour and, in this sense, commitment can be viewed as a consensual interpretation of appropri…
A Commitment to Change: Safety Management in BritishAirways
Provides an account of the changes which have taken place in British Airways Safety Services since 1990 and comments on the ways in which a commitment to safety was conceived and interpreted and how changes in the development and promotion of the safety philosophy and style of operation of the Safety Services Unit have brought about significant change. Considers management commitment to safety and the way this has been illustrated in the developm…
Safety Culture, Corporate Culture: Organizational Transformation and the Commitment to Safety
Draws attention to contextual variables in the development and management of safety cultures. Examines the relationship between corporate culture change and safety management and considers the implications for safety of the manipulation of values and beliefs as part of corporate motivation. Considers the extent to which the development of a safety culture is compatible with the development of a corporate culture. Examines the following areas, the…
Performance and customer service: The cultivation of contempt
The theatrical analogy in descriptions of organisational life has enjoyed a prominent position over many years and continues to offer insights into behaviour in a wide variety of roles and contexts. In this paper, the use of the dramaturgical accounts of organisational behaviour is subjected to specific scrutiny in order to give attention to the construction of the theatrical persona and its implications for performance. The paper provides insigh…
Organisational rhetoric and the threat of ambivalence
Authority and the pursuit of order in organizational performance
The paper seeks to examine the site of performance, the spatial context of the dramatic act, and to consider the various ways in which performance is regulated, ordered and sustained. In particular, the paper is concerned with the relationship between authority and propriety in the regulation of the performance site and with the transformational metaphors which sustain the trajectory of the performance. The basic premise on which the argument res…
The Melancholy of the Black Widow
The Aesthetics of Organization
'The Aesthetics of Organization' examines the possibility of developing an aesthetics of organization as a field of inquiry within organization studies
On being moved
All transient things are but a parable; the insufficient here becomes actuality; here the ineffable is achieved; the Eternal-Feminine draws us onwards. Goethe, Faust Part II Lines 12104 – end. Translation Luke, D. 1964 Goethe, Selected Verse, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörst du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? My father, my father, do you not hear, What the Erl King is quietly promising me? Goethe, The ErlKönig
The Suffering Mother and the Miserable Son: Organizing Women and Organizing Women's Writing
This paper examines the contribution of the writing of Julia Kristeva (1941– ) to post‐structuralist ideas about gender in organizations. In particular, it deals with the relationship between her writing and the disciplining of text and, by a parallel movement, with her writings about the body and the regulation of the body. However, it must be said that her writings are ‘extremely difficult and complex, and certainly intimidating and inaccessibl…
The Mystery of the Assumption: Mothers and Measures
Artaud and the Corruption of Judgement
To read about the life of Antonin Artaud and to study his writings is a difficult task. His work, although lucid, does not make for comfortable reading. His mental disintegration is as distressing as it is inevitable. The major concerns in his writing have great eschatological connotations: heaven, hell, death and judgement. He is a man of extremes. His attempts to theatricalise his personal anguish and to find expression for inner experience is …
The Organisation and the Mouth of Hell
FLESH ‘We are now beginning a two week consultation period—but let me say this [finger raised for emphasis)—if you are not for this project [dramatic pause) you ought to be looking for a move elsewhere’. (Announcement preceding a post‐1992 university restructuring, April 2002) ‘Hang on. I am just parking the car. I am walking into the building. I am now entering the mouth of hell...’ (Conversation with a friend who was calling from his mobile pho…
Frame
This paper is concerned with the most basic, etymological notion of art. It is not concerned with high art, or narrow definitions of fine art. It is not concerned with art as representation. It is about art as process. In seeking to find an appropriate frame of reference, art in this context is more to do with the skill of the artisan than the usual rarefied notions of art which make all works of art, grand or banal, parodies of themselves: alway…
The Codex, the Codicil and the Codpiece: Some Thoughts on Diminution and Elaboration in Identity Formation
This article is about the way in which the processes of diminution and elaboration can be detected in gendered accounts of identity formation. Firstly, it considers the ways in which power is denied to women through a series of reductions, restrictions and controls, and looks at the ways in which men, in contrast, elaborate their identities via a range of enlargements and extensions. The codex of the title refers to the role of the ‘Law’, in Kris…
Reflections of Medusa
It is early in November 2006, and I am in Trento in northern Italy as the guest of Professor Antonio Strati. I am here to spend six weeks at the university working with his Masters course and contributing to the doctoral programme. We have an apartment belonging to the university near the river and a short walk from the Palazzo Albere which houses the Museum of Modern Art. On this particular evening we are going to visit an exhibition of the work…
Sacred Heart: A comment on the heart of management
The literary and artistic image of the Sacred Heart is well known within Roman Catholic iconography and more generally. It is the object of a special devotion and symbolizes love and compassion. In the context of the special issue, this article is concerned with some aspects of the imagery of the heart. It briefly traces the history of the symbolism of the heart from ancient times and then gives specific attention to the imagery of the Sacred Hea…
Architecture and organization: Structure, text and context
This special issue seeks to take an imaginative look at notions of organizational structure and to draw on architectural perspectives in order to examine prevailing definitions of the notion of str
Good order: On the administration of goodness
Catholicism
It is helpful to begin this discussion with some thoughts on the meaning of the term Catholicism. The word catholic comes from two Greek words, kath holou, which mean ‘of the whole’ (Cunningham, 2009, p. 3) or ‘general, total, complete and perfect’ (Dulles, 1985, p. 14). In the first century, the term ‘catholic’ referred to the community of the whole church rather than the individual house churches of the small communities which made up the Chris…
Belief and Organization
Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizati
Theology and organization
This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly …
A gendered perspective on Learning to Labour
This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same period as Willis's study: which, of course, is specific to young men. Consequently, the paper reflects on the implications of class location and life chances, on the social engineering experimentation of …
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