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Hidden attractions of administration : the peculiar appeal of meetings and documents /

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This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today's working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations, those formally working for clients, patients or students, to uncove...

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Main Authors: Åkerström, Malin (Author), Jacobsson, Katarina (Author), Andersson Cederholm, Erika, 1965- (Author), Wästerfors, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2021]
Series:Routledge studies in the sociology of work, professions, and organzations.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Sweden.
Human services > Sweden > Administration.
Social work administration > Sweden.
Health services administration > Sweden.
Police administration > Sweden.
Public institutions > Sweden.
Meetings.
Table of Contents:
  • Eigendynamik
  • The administration society
  • Seductive gatherings
  • Sneaky work and aways
  • A spark of magic
  • Beauty and boost
  • Spirals of meetings and documents
  • Dramatizing administrative skills
  • Muddy transparency
  • The devotion to teaching
  • Magic, emotions and morality.