世代游戏:通过生物政治进行治理

The generation game: Governing through bio-politics

MANAGEMENT LEARNING · 2020
被引 8
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

研究了按代际划分劳动力(管理-代际)如何作为一种生物政治技术来治理当代组织,并探讨了社会学视角下对世代概念的挑战。

Abstract

An increasingly popular management tool is to stratify a workforce along generational lines, to distinguish its qualities and differentiate orientations to work. From this, a range of organisational practices, ranging from leadership styles to reward systems are tailored to fit specific generational characteristics. We term this practice ‘management-by-generation’ and examine how it has the potential to govern as a bio-political technology. The article develops nascent work within organisation studies on governmentality and bio-politics to demonstrate the powerful potential of management-by-generation to govern in contemporary organisations. In line with other Foucauldian studies on ageing, it also contributes to the research on generations in demonstrating how a bio-political construction of generation allows management-by-generation to govern effectively, while more sociologically informed conceptualisations of generation could be a source of contestation to this emerging technology.

组织管理政府性生物政治世代研究福柯研究