The Unmanaged Organization: Stories, Fantasies and Subjectivity
The Unmanaged Organization: Stories, Fantasies and Subjectivity
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不受管理的组织：故事、幻想和主观性
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1995
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Yiannis Gabriel
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Yiannis Gabriel
本文认为，在每个组织中，都有一个不能也不能管理的领域，在这个领域中，人们无论是个人还是集体，都可以从事无人监督的自发活动。这被称为无管理的组织，一种组织梦境，在这种世界中，欲望、焦虑和情绪在高度非理性的结构中得到表达。这一领域的主要力量是幻想，它的地标包括故事、神话、笑话、八卦、昵称、涂鸦和卡通。在组织的梦幻世界里，情感压倒理性，快乐压倒现实。论文认为，幻想为组织成员提供了第三种可能性，这既不等于顺从，也不等于反叛，而是一种勉强的物质接受，伴随着对事件和官方商店的象征性重塑。不受管理的组织远不是一个边缘地带，而是丰富、多维的，是主观性的自然栖息地。结合不同类型的组织叙事，我们发现并讨论了四种不同的主体性模式：(1)作为英雄的主体；(2)作为英雄幸存者的主体；(3)作为受害者的主体；(4)作为爱的客体的主体。
This paper argues that within every organization there is a terrain which is not and cannot be managed, in which people, both individually and in groups, can engage in unsupervised, spontaneous activity. This is referred to as the unmanaged organization, a kind of organizational dreamworld in which desires, anxieties and emotions find expressions in highly irrational construc tions. The chief force in this terrain is fantasy and its landmarks include stories, myths, jokes, gossip, nicknames, graffiti and cartoons. In the organizational dreamworld, emotions prevail over rationality and pleasure over reality. The paper argues that fantasy offers a third possibility to organizational members, which amounts to neither conformity nor rebellion, but to a grudging material acceptance accompanied by a symbolic refashioning of events and official stor ies. Far from being a marginal terrain, it is suggested that the unmanaged organisation is rich, multidimensional and the natural habitat of subjectivity. Four different modes of subjectivity are identified and discussed in connection with different types of organizational narratives: (1) the subject as hero; (2) the subject as heroic survivor; (3) the subject as victim; (4) the subject as object of love.