Empowerment, Culture, and Postmodern Organizing: Deconstructing the Nordstrom Employee Handbook
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Organizational Change Management
- Vol. 5 (2) , 25-30
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819210014850
Abstract
Offers a deconstructive reading of the Nordstrom Employee Handbook. The purpose of the reading is to demonstrate how this document serves as a representational sign of postmodern ideas about power and organizing capable of encouraging responsible, highly individualized, organizational cultural practices. Discusses implications of the postmodern for organizational theory and research.Keywords
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