The agile imperative : teams, organizations and society under reconstruction? / Sabine Pfeiffer, Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer, editors.
Pfeiffer, Sabine, editor.; Nicklich, Manuel, editor.; Sauer, Stefan, editor.
2021
HD4904 .A45 2021
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Title The agile imperative : teams, organizations and society under reconstruction? / Sabine Pfeiffer, Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer, editors.
ISBN 9783030739942 (electronic bk.)
3030739945 (electronic bk.)
9783030739935
3030739937
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73994-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-73994-2 doi
Call Number HD4904 .A45 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.36
Summary In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows organisations to react flexibly to changing environmental demands whilst also offering a people' centered approach to management. While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective. The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or an organizational and institutional reaction to better deal with complexity and volatility. The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agility at the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and bringing together international scholars and different disciplines, which bring in different - sometimes contrary and more or less controversial views - on agile work, the project stimulates a comparative discussion. Sabine Pfeiffer holds the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen- Nurnberg, Germany. Manuel Nicklich works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. Stefan Sauer works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen- Nurnberg, Germany.
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Nicklich, Manuel, editor.
Sauer, Stefan, editor.
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Part 1. Multi-level-perspectives on agility as a new principle of organizing work
1. Agile Methods: Self-Management vs. The World, Robert Biddle
2. The Use of Software Tools in Agile Projects, Azuka Mordi
3. Antecedents and consequences of agility on the ongoing invocation of self-organization, Sabine Pfeiffer;, Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer
Part 2. The team-level as the base of agile work
Part 3. Management and organizational level as the impulse of agile work
4. Reflexive Scaling, Stephanie Porschen-Hueck
5. Design Thinking as a Panacea? Towards a Symbiotic Understanding of Design Thinking and Organizational Culture, Gordon Muller-Seitz
6. Strategility A challenging alliance, Kerstin Pichel & Andrea Muller
7. Agile organizations in startup companies, the new way of manufacturing consent?, Flecher, Marion
Part 4. Societal level as the frame of agile work
8. Traveling management ideas, lost and gained in translation: Agility in Japan, Takahiro Endo; Masatoshi Fujiwara; Yuki Tsuboyama
Understanding agility: multi-level analysis of a Belgian subsidiary of a foreign bank, Olivier Jegou & Fyriel Souayah
Designing work for Agility and Affects Measure, Phoebe Moore.

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