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Contemporary Management Issues

WORKERS PLAYTIME? UNRAVELLING THE PARADOX OF COVERT RESISTANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS

Peter Fleming
p.fleming1@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

André Spicer
a.spicer@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Department of Management
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3010
Australia

Chapter for Paradoxical New Directions in Organization and Management Theory. Edited by Stewart Clegg. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

(Second Draft) July 2001


The problem of whether employee resistance is possible under corporate relations of power that target the very hearts and minds of workers has become an increasingly important issue in recent critical organization studies. With the advent of ‘cultural cleansing' (Strangleman and Roberts, 1999), ‘designer selves' (Casey, 1995) and other forms of ‘normative controls' (Kunda, 1992) related to culture engineering and teamwork numerous studies have argued that the very capacity for workers to resist management has been insidiously undermined. In the past workers......


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