Managing Intensity and Play at Work

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Contents: Introduction 1. Diagnostics of the Present and Second-Order Observation 2. Adapting to Adaptability: The Machine of Transience 3. From Membership to Self-enrolment: The Production of the Employee who Creates Herself in the Organizational Image 4. Management of Authentic Feelings: The Trembling Organization 5. Managing Interpenetration and Intensity 6. Loving Layoffs: The Intimate Strategies of the Break-up 7. Unbound Binding: From Employee Contracts to Partnerships 8. The Organization as a Nexus of Partnerships Conclusion: Transient Relationships – Towards the Intensity Machine Bibliography Index

’This book treats seriously one of the fundamental trends characterizing contemporary institutions - namely, the inability to establish a ground from which purpose and direction can be defined. It questions the core trope of 'permanent change' and exposes its emptiness in a thorough and considered manner which enriches the way we question organizational orders.’- Bogdan Costea, Lancaster University, UK