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Organizational Misbehaviour in the Workplace

Narratives of Dignity and Resistance

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  1. Jan Ch. Karlsson
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Table of contents (71 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Organizational Misbehaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dignity and Autonomy at Work

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 3-18

  3. The Narrative About

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Staircase

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 21-21

    3. The Strippers’ Music

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 22-23

    4. The Recalcitrant Factory Workers

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 24-26

    5. The Satisfied Department

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 27-30

    6. Fair Exchange in Milanese Shops

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 31-32

    7. The Disappointed Associates

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 33-36

    8. The Employees Who Were Not on Brand

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 37-38

    9. Careful Carelessness

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 39-39

    10. The Teams That Drifted Apart

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 40-42

    11. Two Aquatic Centres

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 43-44

    12. Peer Review in the Factory of the Future

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 45-47

    13. The Maids Who did Not Want to Be Maids

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 48-49

    14. Responsible Co-Workers and Irresponsible Counter-Workers

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 50-55

    15. The Way of Doing Things

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 56-56

    16. The Boiler Struggle

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 57-58

    17. The Company in Trouble

      • Jan Ch. Karlsson
      Pages 59-60
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About this book

People need dignity and autonomy at work. If they are denied this, there will be a strong tendency to resist working conditions and misbehave at work. This book presents and analyses stories about people's resistance in working life that make us reflect upon how employees are treated at work and consequences thereof.

About the author

JAN CH. KARLSSON Professor of Sociology at the Department of Working life science at Karlstad University, Sweden. Among hisprevious books in English are Commitment to Work and Job Satisfaction, Flexibility and Stability in Working Life, Gender Segregation, and Explaining Society.

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