The Absurd Workplace : How Absurdity is Normalized in Contemporary Society and the Workplace

by Matthijs Bal, Andy Brookes, Dieu Hack-Polay, Maria Kordowicz, John Mendy

Chapter 1: Introduction to Absurdity and Hypernormalization in Contemporary Society and Workplaces -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundation: a Multidisciplinary Review of Absurdity and Hypernormalization -- Chapter 3: Ideological Underpinnings of Absurdity and Hypernormalization -- Chapter 4: From Hypernormalization of Workplace Inequality to Dehumanization: A way out for Human Resource Management -- Chapter 5: 'Chocolates for the Director' and other Tales of Public Sector Absurdity -- Chapter 6: The hypernormalization of race in contemporary workplaces -- Chapter 7: Hypernormalized destruction: making sense of why business organisations are able to act with impunity -- Chapter 8: Absurdity of the Climate Transition that Never Happened -- Chapter 9: A Way out of Absurdity and Hypernormalization -- Chapter 10: Moving Forward with Absurdity. .

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Year of publication:	2023
Authors:	Bal, Matthijs ; Brookes, Andy ; Hack-Polay, Dieu ; Kordowicz, Maria ; Mendy, John
Publisher:	2023.: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	grand challenges \| SDGs \| pandemic \| Leadership \| social science \| organizational life \| Sozialwissenschaft \| Social sciences \| Führungsstil \| Leadership style \| Verhalten in Organisationen \| Organizational behaviour \| Coronavirus \| Arbeitsplatz \| Workplace
Description of contents:	Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (XI, 259 p. 3 illus.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-031-17887-0 ; 978-3-031-17886-3 ; 978-3-031-17888-7 ; 978-3-031-17889-4
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-031-17887-0 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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