David L Collinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 258661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Collinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Collinson |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINSON D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Management Sciences, U.M.I.S.T., Manchester, U.K. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 501 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work
This article explores the growing interest in selves and subjects at work. In particular, it examines the analytical importance of insecurity for understanding the subjective power relations and survival strategies of organization. Insecurity in organizations can take many different, sometimes overlapping forms. Highlighting how these insecurities can intersect in the reproduction of workplace selves and organizational power relations, the articl…
Managing Humour
This article examines the under‐explored relationship between humour, power and management. Critically analysing the functionalist influence on workplace humour studies, it addresses the reproduction of humour through power relations and of management control through joking relations. In particular, the following argument considers how, in different social and organizational contexts, the management of humour is implemented through the practices …
A Response to Wray-Bliss: Revisiting the Shopfloor
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory
Surviving the Rigs': Safety and Surveillance on North Sea Oil Installations
This article examines the politics of accident reporting on North Sea oil installations. In the context of an all-pervasive safety culture and performance assessment system, offshore workers restricted the reporting of accidents. Other studies suggest that workers often respond to increased monitoring by engaging in defensive practices that manipulate performance information. Accordingly, a central contention of this article is that performance a…
Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements
Men As Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements
As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed
Delayering Managers: Time-Space Surveillance and its Gendered Effects
This article seeks to extend the growing interest in time-space issues within social and organizational theory (Giddens, 1984, 1987; Harvey, 1990) by focusing on management and gender in the workplace. It examines the impact of what we have termed `time-space surveillance' on managers who have survived delayering and also addresses the gendered conditions and consequences of these processes. Drawing on research from the UK insurance industry, we …
Having Fun: Humour as Resistance in Brazil
Highlighting the under-researched interrelationship between workplace humour and resistance, this paper examines employee opposition in a Brazilian telecommunications company. Much of the literature on corporate culture and humour has emphasized the way that 'having fun' can facilitate production. Functionalist in perspective, such studies treat organizational joking both as a means by which employees can 'let off steam' and as a flexible tool fo…
Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity, and Workplace Culture
Virile Capitalism
Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture
Mismanaging Sexual Harassment: Protecting the Perpetrator and Blaming the Victim
The EC has recently ratified a code of practice on sexual harassment in the workplace. Drawing on case study material, argues that initiatives designed to formalize the procedures for dealing with sexual harassment are necessary but by no means sufficient for its effective management. Presents case studies which outline how sexual harassment can be mismanaged both by professional managers and by trade union representatives
Engineering Humour: Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-floor Relations
The focus of this paper is on the organizational significance of shop-floor humour and in particular its relationship to gender identity and working-class resistance. A brief review of the literature on organizational humour is followed by a more detailed examination of the illuminating analysis by Willis of school/shop-floor counter-culture. Although his research provides a strong basis for the case study presented below, it is criticized for a …
Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work
This article explores the growing interest in selves and subjects at work. In particular, it examines the analytical importance of insecurity for understanding the subjective power relations and survival strategies of organization. Insecurity in organizations can take many different, sometimes overlapping forms. Highlighting how these insecurities can intersect in the reproduction of workplace selves and organizational power relations, the articl…
Engineering Humour: Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-floor Relations
The focus of this paper is on the organizational significance of shop-floor humour and in particular its relationship to gender identity and working-class resistance. A brief review of the literature on organizational humour is followed by a more detailed examination of the illuminating analysis by Willis of school/shop-floor counter-culture. Although his research provides a strong basis for the case study presented below, it is criticized for a …
Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture
Having Fun: Humour as Resistance in Brazil
Highlighting the under-researched interrelationship between workplace humour and resistance, this paper examines employee opposition in a Brazilian telecommunications company. Much of the literature on corporate culture and humour has emphasized the way that 'having fun' can facilitate production. Functionalist in perspective, such studies treat organizational joking both as a means by which employees can 'let off steam' and as a flexible tool fo…
Men As Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements
As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed
Engineering Humour: Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-floor Relations
The focus of this paper is on the organizational significance of shop-floor humour and in particular its relationship to gender identity and working-class resistance. A brief review of the literature on organizational humour is followed by a more detailed examination of the illuminating analysis by Willis of school/shop-floor counter-culture. Although his research provides a strong basis for the case study presented below, it is criticized for a …
Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture
Mismanaging Sexual Harassment: Protecting the Perpetrator and Blaming the Victim
The EC has recently ratified a code of practice on sexual harassment in the workplace. Drawing on case study material, argues that initiatives designed to formalize the procedures for dealing with sexual harassment are necessary but by no means sufficient for its effective management. Presents case studies which outline how sexual harassment can be mismanaged both by professional managers and by trade union representatives
Virile Capitalism
Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity, and Workplace Culture
Having Fun: Humour as Resistance in Brazil
Highlighting the under-researched interrelationship between workplace humour and resistance, this paper examines employee opposition in a Brazilian telecommunications company. Much of the literature on corporate culture and humour has emphasized the way that 'having fun' can facilitate production. Functionalist in perspective, such studies treat organizational joking both as a means by which employees can 'let off steam' and as a flexible tool fo…
Delayering Managers: Time-Space Surveillance and its Gendered Effects
This article seeks to extend the growing interest in time-space issues within social and organizational theory (Giddens, 1984, 1987; Harvey, 1990) by focusing on management and gender in the workplace. It examines the impact of what we have termed `time-space surveillance' on managers who have survived delayering and also addresses the gendered conditions and consequences of these processes. Drawing on research from the UK insurance industry, we …
Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements
Men As Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements
As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed
Surviving the Rigs': Safety and Surveillance on North Sea Oil Installations
This article examines the politics of accident reporting on North Sea oil installations. In the context of an all-pervasive safety culture and performance assessment system, offshore workers restricted the reporting of accidents. Other studies suggest that workers often respond to increased monitoring by engaging in defensive practices that manipulate performance information. Accordingly, a central contention of this article is that performance a…
Managing Humour
This article examines the under‐explored relationship between humour, power and management. Critically analysing the functionalist influence on workplace humour studies, it addresses the reproduction of humour through power relations and of management control through joking relations. In particular, the following argument considers how, in different social and organizational contexts, the management of humour is implemented through the practices …
A Response to Wray-Bliss: Revisiting the Shopfloor
PREVIOUS ARTICLEAbstract Ethics, Embodied Ethics: The Strange Marriage of Foucault and Positivism in Labour Process Theory
Identities and Insecurities: Selves at Work
This article explores the growing interest in selves and subjects at work. In particular, it examines the analytical importance of insecurity for understanding the subjective power relations and survival strategies of organization. Insecurity in organizations can take many different, sometimes overlapping forms. Highlighting how these insecurities can intersect in the reproduction of workplace selves and organizational power relations, the articl…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Masculinity (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works)