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Foucault, enclosure, and partitioning

  • 1.  Foucault, enclosure, and partitioning

    Posted 02-21-2011 13:21

    Hi Colleagues

     

    The work of Michel Foucault has, during the last couple of decades, been widely applied to management and OB, and particularly to HRM.  Central to Foucault's ideas have been the concepts of the enclosure and partitioning of work, and the ranking of partitions.  Has anybody developed and tested large or small group exercises to introduce students with no prior knowledge of Foucault to these ideas?

     

    I will collate and circulate responses

     

    With thanks and best wishes

     

    David

     

    David A. Buchanan
    Professor of Organizational Behaviour
    Cranfield University
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