tailieunhanh - Decoding Organization

This part of the book is concerned with the inter-related issues of how BP and signals intelligence were made over the course of WW2. The focus is primarily upon various forms of organizational structuring, broadly conceived, and the emphasis on ‘making’ indicates that, in line with the general approach outlined in the introduction to the book, I will seek to explore some of the processes of ‘organizing’ which lie beneath the production of ‘organization’. Such an exploration derives in a broad way from processual understandings of structure which emphasise multiple interactions and connections which weave and interweave to continually re-create structure (Strati, 2000; 2008). It is an approach which stands. | Decoding Organization How was Bletchley Park made as an organization How was signals intelligence constructed as a field What was Bletchley Park s culture and how was its work co-ordinated Bletchley Park was not just the home of geniuses such as Alan Turing it was also the workplace of thousands of other people mostly women and their organization was a key component in the cracking of Enigma. Challenging many popular perceptions this book examines the hitherto unexamined complexities of how 10 000 people were brought together in complete secrecy during World War II to work on ciphers. Unlike most organizational studies this book decodes rather than encodes the processes of organization and examines the structures cultures and the work itself of Bletchley Park using archive and oral history sources. Organization theorists intelligence historians and general readers alike will find in this book a challenge to their preconceptions of both Bletchley Park and organizational analysis. CHRISTOPHER grey is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Warwick. He was previously Professor of Organizational Theory at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Wolfson College. Professor Grey has published numerous academic articles on the sociology and history of management and organizations on management education and learning on critical management studies and on professional services organizations. He is the author of the bestselling student primer A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations 2009 second edition . Decoding Organization Bletchley Park Codebreaking and Organization Studies CHRISTOPHER grey gn Cambridge UNIVERSITY .