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| Author: | Styhre, A. |
| Title: | Kaizen, ethics, and care of the operations: Management after empowerment |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2001 : SEP, VOL. 38:6, p. 795-810 |
| Index terms: | ETHICS EMPOWERMENT MANAGEMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Empowerment is depicted by its proponents as the common denominator for recent managerial techniques and activities that acknowledge the individual employee as an intelligent, accountable, creative being, and therefore a productive resource for the company. Rather than thinking of management techniques as being, or not being, used to empower employees, this paper suggests that the notion of ethics, and more specifically what Foucault calls technologies of the self, provides possibilities for analysing how employees constitute themselves as ethical, productive, and legitimate members of society through the use of management techniques. This paper presents a study of how the management technique of kaizen, continuous improvements, is used in three Swedish companies. |
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