About the contributors -- Introduction -- Governmentality : the career of a concept / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- Locating governmentality -- Getting to the surface of things : foucault as theorist and historian of management and accounting / Keith Hoskin -- A dialogue with Foucault on power...

"This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased...

'Foucault, Management and Organization Theory' provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory while challenging some of the conventions of traditional organizational analysis

1. The will to empower : governing the workplace -- 2. Working for the Yankee dollar -- 3. Greenfield site, Greenfield labour? -- 4. 'Not just another number' : empowerment, discipline, and teamworking freedom -- 5. Confession, discipline, and freedom -- 6. 'Just like any other factory'.