Philip Hancock
- Associate Professor (Reader) of Organisational Behaviour
BA (Nottingham Trent), PGDip (Derby), MA (Warwick), PGCPCE(HE) (Warwick), PhD (Keele)
Biography
Previously Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, University College Scarborough; Lecturer in Sociology, Glasgow Caledonian University. Member of British Sociological Association, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, European Group for Organisational Studies.
Research interests
Organisation and social theory; the philosophy of organisational research; organisational culture, art and aesthetics; the management of everyday life
Research projects
- Affective Labour at Christmas: Performing Santa Claus: British Academy, October 2009 - September 2011.
- Abjection and Alterity in the Workplace: ESRC, December 2007 - November 2009.
- Organizational Space in the New Library: British Academy, July 2006 - June 2007.
Publications
Book chapters
- Aesthetics and Aestheticization. Understanding Corporate Life. Ed. Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. London: Sage, 2009. Chapter 3. 46-63.
- Management and Colonization in Everyday Life. The Management of Everyday Life. Ed. Hancock, P. & Tyler, M. Palgrave, 2009. Chapter 1. 1-20.
- Managing Sleep? The Colonization of Everyday/ Night Life. The Management of Everyday Life. Ed. Hancock, P. & Tyler, M. Palgrave, 2009. Chapter 5. 74-91.
- Functionalism. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Ed. S. Clegg & Bailey, J.R. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2008.
- Communicative Action. International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Ed. S. Clegg & Bailey, J.R. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2008.
- It's All Too Beautiful: Emotion and Organization in the Aesthetic Economy. The Emotional Organization: Passions and Power. Ed. Fineman, S. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Chapter 14. 202-217.
- Organisation. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 408-411.
- Bureaucracy. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 40-42.
- Organisation Studies. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H-P Miller. London: Routledge, 2006. 411-412.
- Emotion at Work. Contemporary Human Resource Management. Ed. T. Redman and A. Wilkinson. London: Prentice Hall, 2005. Chapter 18. 450-472.
- Beautiful Untrue Things - Aestheticizing the Corporate Culture Industry. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 12. 174-194.
- Critical Engagements with Aesthetics at Work: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 9. 135-137.
- Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 1. 3-6.
- Work as an Aesthetically Ordered Activity: An Introduction. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Palgrave, 2003. Chapter 5. 67-69.
- Flight Attendants and the Management Of Gendered Organizational Bodies. Constructing Gendered Bodies. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Chapter 2.
- The Working Body. The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction. Ed. P. Hancock, B. Hughes, E. Jagger, K. Paterson, R. Russell, E. Tulle-Winton and M. Tyler. Milton Keynes: OU Press, 2000. Chapter 5. 84-99.
- The Look of Love: Gender and The Organization of Aesthetics. Body and Organization. Ed. J. Hassard, R. Holliday and H. Willmott. London: Sage, 2000. Chapter 6. 108-129.
- The Metaphysics of Motivation. Jean Baudrillard: Volumes 1 - 4. Ed. M. Gane. London: Sage, 2000.
Journal articles
- Networks of Aestheticisation: Producing Pathos in an Interactive Service. Work, Employment And Society 23 (2009): 460-476.
- Beyond the Confines: Managerial Colonization and the Everyday. Critical Sociology 34 (2008): 29-49.
- Cultures of Sleep: Organization and the Lure of Dormancy. Cultures and Organizations 14 (2008): 411-424.
- Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization. Organization Studies 29 (2008): 1357-1373.
- Tales of Hyper-Organizational Space: The Work of JG Ballard. Organization 15 (2008): 889-910.
- Another Time, Another Place: Space and Time in Organization Studies. Tamara 5 (2007): 89-93.
- Un-doing Gender and the Aesthetics of Organizational Performance. Gender, Work And Organization 14 (2007): 512-533.
- The Iron Rose: Mackintosh and the Psychodynamics of Organizational Design. Tamara 6 (2007): 83-105.
- The Spatial and Temporal Mediation of Social Change. Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006): 619-639.
- Beyond the Scope of the Possible: Art, Photography and Organisational Abjection. Cultures and Organizations 12 (2006): 109-125.
- Space and Time in Organizational Change Management. Journal of Organizational Change Management 19 (2006): 545-557.
- Uncovering the Semiotic in Organizational Aesthetics. Organization 12 (2005): 29-50.
- Gibson Burrell: Diabolical Architect. Sociological Review, The 53 (2005): 46-62.
- "MOT Your Life": Critical Management Studies and the Management of Everyday Life. Human Relations 57 (2004): 619-645.
- Managing Organizational Aesthetics. Tamara 2 (2002): 64-71.
- Organizational Subjectivity and The Dialectic of Self-Consciousness. Organization 8 (2001): 565-585.
- Baudrillard and the Metaphysics of Motivation: A Reappraisal of Corporate Culturalism in the Light of the Work and Ideas of Jean Baudrillard. Journal Of Management Studies 36 (1999): 145-165.
- Citizenship or Vassalage? Organizational Membership in the Age of Unreason. Organization 4 (1997): 93-111.
Books
- Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage, 2001.
- The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2000.
