组织身体工作:在组织中塑造人体的努力

Organizational Body Work: Efforts to Shape Human Bodies in Organizations

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS · 2022
被引 51
人大 AFT50ABS 4*

中文导读

综述了管理和组织研究中关于组织身体工作的概念,即组织中有目的地塑造人体的努力,并提出了一个包含触发因素、形式、后果、背景和身体变异的过程模型,探讨了文化、健康和政治动态中的组织张力,为未来研究指明了方向。

Abstract

In this article, we review management and organizational research that describes and explains “organizational body work”— purposeful, organizationally embedded efforts to shape human bodies. We conceptualize human bodies in terms of three dimensions—materiality, meaning, and functionality—and argue that organizational body work is constituted by programs of purposeful effort involving activities situated in and shaped by organizational life. Based on a review of 210 articles and books that feature descriptions of organizational body work, we unpack the concept in three main ways. First, we offer an inductively developed process model of organizational body work that comprises five key themes: the triggers, forms, consequences, contexts, and the variations of bodies targeted. Second, a key observation that emerged from our review was that organizational body work is animated by a set of organizational tensions, and so we explore three such tensions situated in the cultural, health, and political dynamics of organizational life. Third, we suggest eight directions for future research intended to illustrate and inspire, rather than set boundaries around the study of organizational body work.

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