Reed, Cara and Thomas, Robyn 2020. The generation game: governing through bio-politics. Management Learning 10.1177/1350507620938926 |
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Abstract
An increasingly popular management tool is to stratify a workforce along generational lines, to distinguish its qualities and differentiate orientations to work. From this, a range of organisational practices, ranging from leadership styles to reward systems are tailored to fit specific generational characteristics. We term this practice ‘management-by-generation’ and examine how it has the potential to govern as a bio-political technology. The article develops nascent work within organisation studies on governmentality and bio-politics to demonstrate the powerful potential of management-by-generation to govern in contemporary organisations. In line with other Foucauldian studies on ageing, it also contributes to the research on generations in demonstrating how a bio-political construction of generation allows management-by-generation to govern effectively, while more sociologically informed conceptualisations of generation could be a source of contestation to this emerging technology.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | In Press |
Schools: | Business (Including Economics) |
Publisher: | SAGE |
ISSN: | 1350-5076 |
Funders: | None |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 16 July 2020 |
Date of Acceptance: | 10 June 2020 |
Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2020 10:54 |
URI: | http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/133527 |
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