Posthuman Management

2016-08-07 Business & Economics

Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Release : 2016-08-07
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Posthuman Management written by Matthew E. Gladden. This book was released on 2016-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the best practices for leading a workforce in which human employees have merged cognitively and physically with electronic information systems and work alongside social robots, artificial life-forms, and self-aware networks that are ‘colleagues’ rather than simply ‘tools’? How does one manage organizational structures and activities that span actual and virtual worlds? How are the forces of technological posthumanization transforming the theory and practice of management? This volume explores the reality that an organization’s workers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders increasingly comprise a complex network of human agents, artificial agents, and hybrid human-synthetic entities. The first part of the book develops the theoretical foundations of an emerging ‘organizational posthumanism’ and presents frameworks for understanding and managing the evolving workplace relationship between human and synthetic beings. Other chapters investigate topics such as the likelihood that social robots might utilize charismatic authority to lead human workers; potential roles of AIs as managers of cross-cultural virtual teams; the ethics and legality of entrusting organizational decision-making to spatially diffuse robots that have no discernible physical form; quantitative approaches to comparing managerial capabilities of human and artificial agents; the creation of artificial life-forms that function as autonomous enterprises competing against human businesses; neural implants as gateways that allow human users to participate in new forms of organizational life; and the implications of advanced neuroprosthetics for information security and business model design. As the first comprehensive application of posthumanist methodologies to management, this volume will interest management scholars and management practitioners who must understand and guide the forces of technologization that are rapidly reshaping organizations’ form, dynamics, and societal roles.

Posthuman Management

2016-07-07

Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Release : 2016-07-07
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Download or read book Posthuman Management written by Matthew E. Gladden. This book was released on 2016-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the best practices for leading a workforce in which human employees have merged cognitively and physically with electronic information systems and work alongside social robots, artificial life-forms, and self-aware networks that are 'colleagues' rather than simply 'tools'? How does one manage organizational structures and activities that span both actual and virtual worlds? How are the forces of technological posthumanization transforming the theory and practice of management?This volume explores the reality that an organization's workers, managers, customers, and other stakeholders increasingly comprise a complex network of human agents, artificial agents, and hybrid human-synthetic entities. The first part of the book develops the theoretical foundations of an emerging 'organizational posthumanism' and presents conceptual frameworks for understanding and managing the evolving workplace relationship between human and synthetic beings.Subsequent chapters investigate concrete management topics such as the likelihood that social robots might utilize charismatic authority to inspire and lead human workers; potential roles of AIs as managers of cross-cultural virtual teams; the ethics and legality of entrusting organizational decision-making to spatially diffuse robots that have no discernible identity or physical form; quantitative approaches to comparing the managerial capabilities of human and artificial agents; the creation of artificial life-forms that function as autonomous enterprises which evolve by competing against human businesses; neural implants as gateways that allow their human users to participate in new forms of organizational life; and the implications of advanced neuroprosthetics for information security and business model design.As the first comprehensive application of posthumanist methodologies to the field of management, this volume will be of use to scholars and students of contemporary management and to management practitioners who must increasingly understand and guide the forces of technologization that are rapidly reshaping organizations' form, dynamics, and societal roles.

The Posthuman

2013-07-11 Social Science

Author : Rosi Braidotti
Release : 2013-07-11
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book The Posthuman written by Rosi Braidotti. This book was released on 2013-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non-naturalistic structure of the human. The Posthuman starts by exploring the extent to which a post-humanist move displaces the traditional humanistic unity of the subject. Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities. Braidotti then analyzes the escalating effects of post-anthropocentric thought, which encompass not only other species, but also the sustainability of our planet as a whole. Because contemporary market economies profit from the control and commodification of all that lives, they result in hybridization, erasing categorical distinctions between the human and other species, seeds, plants, animals and bacteria. These dislocations induced by globalized cultures and economies enable a critique of anthropocentrism, but how reliable are they as indicators of a sustainable future? The Posthuman concludes by considering the implications of these shifts for the institutional practice of the humanities. Braidotti outlines new forms of cosmopolitan neo-humanism that emerge from the spectrum of post-colonial and race studies, as well as gender analysis and environmentalism. The challenge of the posthuman condition consists in seizing the opportunities for new social bonding and community building, while pursuing sustainability and empowerment.

Posthuman Management

2015-12-11

Author : Matthew E. Gladden
Release : 2015-12-11
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Download or read book Posthuman Management written by Matthew E. Gladden. This book was released on 2015-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging posthuman technologies are creating human beings who are increasingly computerized and computers that ever more resemble human beings. How will this technological and social convergence transform the field of management?Within this dawning posthuman age, the traditional biological human being will no longer be the only intelligent agent serving organizations as employees, consultants, board members, investors, or consumers; instead, the universe of intelligent entities filling such roles will increasingly include neuroprosthetically augmented or genetically modified human beings, social robots, artificial general intelligences, and sentient networks that interact within complex digital-physical ecosystems and virtual worlds. The texts collected here constitute the first-ever volume dedicated to exploring this future from the perspective of management theory and practice and developing a comprehensive conceptual framework for posthuman organizational management.Individual chapters focus on posthuman organization development, the use of neuroprosthetic devices to create digital-physical ecosystems and posthuman socioeconomic interaction, the impact of neurocybernetic enhancement on organizational business models, the impact of implantable computers on information security, the ability of social robots to serve as charismatic leaders within organizations, the legal and ethical implications of creating robots that lack a discernible body, the use of artificial agents to manage virtual teams of human workers; measures for comparing the work of human and artificial agents performing management functions, the relationship of sociality and autonomy in managerial robots, and the possibility of artificial life-forms functioning as businesses within the real-world economy. The chapters are tied together through the conceptual framework of the Posthuman Management Matrix, a two-dimensional model designed to aid management theorists and practitioners in understanding and anticipating the new opportunities and challenges that organizations will face as a result of such radical technological and social change.

Organization Studies and Posthumanism

2024-04-05 Business & Economics

Author : François-Xavier de Vaujany
Release : 2024-04-05
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Organization Studies and Posthumanism written by François-Xavier de Vaujany. This book was released on 2024-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at exploring the reception of critical posthumanist conversations in the context of Management and Organization Studies. It constitutes an invitation to de-center the human subject and thus an invitation to the ongoing deconstruction of humanism. The project is not to deny humans but to position them in relation to other nonhumans, more-than-humans, the non-living world, and all the “missing masses” from organizational inquiry. What is under critique is humanism’s anthropocentrism, essentialism, exceptionalism, and speciesism in the context of the Anthropocene and the contemporary crisis the world experiences. From climate change to the loss of sense at work, to the new geopolitical crisis, to the unknown effects of the diffusion of AI, all these powerful forces have implications for organizations and organizing. A re-imagination of concepts, theories, and methods is needed in organization studies to cope with the challenge of a more-than-human world.

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