Aesthetics, Morality and Power
Design as Espoused Freedom and Implicit Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Cairns (0000-0002-6231-8060, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 799-820 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0018726702055007541 |
| OpenAlex | W2124623120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article is intended to contribute to debate on the arguments that are propounded both in support and in condemnation of new forms of workplace aesthetic. I draw upon experience in organizational intervention and on literature from the arenas of physical and social workplace design to support a multi-contextual debate on the new workplace aesthetic and on interpretations that are placed upon it within different contexts of study. While an essential tension of freedom and control is identified in the literature, I offer no conclusion in support or in condemnation of any particular viewpoint. Rather, I argue for a multi-perspective analysis of workplace aesthetic in order to surface meaning for different groups of actors within their own context of thinking/acting. From this, general theories for analysis of other situations may be derived rather than particular models or recipes for application
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Control (management · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Morality · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Service and Product Innovation · Social Psychology
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Organizations as Designed Islands
To include or not to include? A poetics perspective on the Muslim workforce in the West
Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains
Aesthetics Awry
Leadership and performance beyond expectations
Rationality and power
Organization and Aesthetics
Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2
The social construction of reality
Workplaces of the Future
The Emerging Goddess
The Enduring Legacy of Elton Mayo
Organizational Symbolism as a Social Construction
Coping with change
The philosophical discourse of modernity
Outcomes of Planned Organizational Change in the Public Sector
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 3
Management and Morale
The Emerging Goddess
The Hawthorne Studies
Criticisms of the Dominant Perspective on Organizations
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,62 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |