Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 10 Issue 2

Joblessness, pain, power, pathology and promise

Dan Butts

Corporate downsizing has destroyed millions of well‐paying jobs just in the USA. The psychological, medical, and social costs are staggering. Families are fragmented, communities…

A postmodern spiritual future for work

Jerry Biberman, Michael Whitty

Contends that predictions of the end of work as we know it, and a bleak jobless future, as we head into the twenty‐first century, derive from a modernist paradigm of work ‐ a…

The future of work in the digital diaspora: economic restructuring and education

David N. Cooper

The microprocessor and digital technologies have spawned an economic revolution enabling the global customization of mass production and services in close synchronization with the…

Work, authority and participation: the scenario of circular organizing

A. Georges L. Romme

Explores a scenario for how work can be organized in a circular manner. Outlines two tendencies in work relations: a return to authoritarian governance of the workplace, and at…

Work, gender and the future

Øystein Gullvåg Holter

Contrasts the ideology of “productionism” with the rising importance of people‐oriented work (“reproduction”) and the struggle for equal gender status. Examines economic factors…

Improving organizational health by addressing organizational trauma

Enid Hilton Brown

Organizations are searching for new methodologies to address their biggest concern for the future ‐ their health. In a world of risk, danger, and corporate diseases, survival may…