Yeni Şef: Bürokratik Tutuculuk ve Liderlik

by Niklas Luhmann, Mustafa Şahin Garipbaş (Translator)

“Yönetici değişikliği idari rutinde heyecan verici ve nadir görülen olaylardan biridir. Seçim sonuçları belli olduğunda ve yeni bir rejim ihtimali söz konusu olduğunda bakanlıkların koridorlarındaki gerginliği hissedebilirsiniz. Akabinde işler neredeyse tamamen durur. Zira kimse ne bekleyeceğini bilemez ve bir süre, âdeta dedikodularda teselli arar hâle gelinir. Bir bölüm yöneticisinin işten ayrılmasının etkisiyse nispeten daha azdır. Fakat bu da ilgi çekici, özel bir durumun ortaya çıkmasına sebep olur: Halef-selef meselesi, idari bir organizasyonun en alt kademelerine kadar popüler bir sohbet konusudur.”

İş dünyasındaki sosyal ilişkiler, sosyologların önde gelen araştırma konularından biri olduğu gibi çalışanların ve idarecilerin de en çok merak ettiği konulardan biridir. Yeni Şef: Bürokratik Tutuculuk ve Liderlik modern dünyada, irili ufaklı çeşitli kamu ve özel işletmelerin, çalışanları ve şefleri arasındaki insani ilişkilerin nasıl düzenlendiğini ve bu ilişkinin dinamiklerini çözümlemeye çalışıyor. Niklas Luhmann’ın Yeni Şef’i, çalışanlar ve şefleri arasındaki ilişkilere yeni bir pencereden bakıyor. Yazılı ve yazılı olmayan kurallar, çalışanlar arasındaki gruplaşmalar ve rekabet gibi meselelere değinen eserin sorusu basit: İdareye yeni bir şef geldi, neler olacak?

Genres: Sociology, Business, Management

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is increasingly recognized as one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century.

Luhmann wrote prolifically, with more than 70 books and nearly 400 scholarly articles published on a variety of subjects, including law, economy, politics, art, religion, ecology, mass media, and love. While his theories have yet to make a major mark in American sociology, his theory is currently well known and popular in German sociology and has also been rather intensively received in Japan and Eastern Europe, including Russia. His relatively low profile elsewhere is partly due to the fact that translating his work is a difficult task, since his writing presents a challenge even to readers of German, including many sociologists. (p. xxvii Social System 1995)

Much of Luhmann's work directly deals with the operations of the legal system and his autopoietic theory of law is regarded as one of the more influential contributions to the sociology of law and socio-legal studies.

Luhmann is probably best known to North Americans for his debate with the critical theorist Jürgen Habermas over the potential of social systems theory. Like his one-time mentor Talcott Parsons, Luhmann is an advocate of "grand theory," although neither in the sense of philosophical foundationalism nor in the sense of "meta-narrative" as often invoked in the critical works of post-modernist writers. Rather, Luhmann's work tracks closer to complexity theory broadly speaking, in that it aims to address any aspect of social life within a universal theoretical framework - of which the diversity of subjects he wrote about is an indication. Luhmann's theory is sometimes dismissed as highly abstract and complex, particularly within the Anglophone world, whereas his work has had a more lasting influence on scholars from German-speaking countries, Scandinavia and Italy.

Luhmann himself described his theory as "labyrinth-like" or "non-linear" and claimed he was deliberately keeping his prose enigmatic to prevent it from being understood "too quickly", which would only produce simplistic misunderstandings.

Reviews

[Franziska · Rating 5 out of 5]

so clever! and thoughtful.

[bxa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Erkenntnisse aus der Verwaltung der 1960er Jahre: selbstverständlich nicht (mehr) 1:1 auf unsere heutige Lebenswelt zu übertragen.

Was aber die letzten 50 Jahre überdauert hat, das rührt an das Eigentliche, an den Kern des Homo laborans, des arbeitenden Menschen ... nicht nur in der Verwaltung.

Eine interessante Zusammenstellung von Texten, die der Suhrkamp Verlag hier für uns heutige, mit einem erhellenden Nachwort von Jürgen Kaube, neu zusammengestellt hat.

[Dirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Das Buch gehoert in den Kontext von Luhmanns Schriften zur Organisations- und Verwaltungssoziologie, die er in den 1960er Jahren produziert hat. Sehr nette Ideen. Neuere ethnografische Forschung in den Fuehrungsetagen hat einige der von Luhmann aufgezeigten Forschungsluecken adressiert.

[Gin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m not sure how to review this, given that it is essentially a couple of essays cobbled into a book. I found some of Luhman’s points interesting, but overall it was for me a bit dull. Organisational sociology is not quite my kind of thing - this was essentially what I gathered after finishing the book.