Leistungsorientierte Vergütung in Nonprofit-Organisationen? Weiterführende Diskussion des Artikels von Brandl et al. zur Entwicklungsdynamik von Vergütungssystemen in Nonprofit-Organisationen.

Der wertvolle Beitrag von Brandl et al. beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklungsdynamik von Vergütungssystemen in Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPO). Die Autoren stellen sich die Frage, 'weshalb es zu Veränderungen von Vergütungssystemen für gehobene Fach- und Führungskräfte in Nonprofit-Organisationen kommt (Entwicklungslogik) und welcher Dynamik deren Entwicklung folgt' (S. 344). Sie zeigen einen Trend von einem personenzentrierten zu einem funktionszentrierten zu einem leistungszentrierten Vergütungssystem auf, stellen aber fest, dass NPO auf das letztgenannte Konzept eher ablehnend reagieren. Die Gründe dafür vermuten sie unseres Erachtens zurecht unter anderem in der Kultur und der Entwicklungsdynamik dieser Organisationen. Am Ende des Beitrags werden drei weiterführende Forschungsarbeiten aufgezeigt; zwei davon möchten wir in unserer Diskussion aufgreifen. Sinngemäß ließen sich mit Bezug auf Brandl et al. zwei Forschungsfragen formulieren: (a) Wie wirken sich Elemente variabler Vergütungen auf die Identität der NPO aus? (b) Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Veränderungen der Organisation und der Neugestaltung von Vergütungssystemen (vgl. S. 359)

Organize

Digital media technologies re-pose the question of organization - and thus of power and domination, control and surveillance, disruption and emancipation. This book interrogates organization as effect and condition of media. How can we understand the recursive relationship between media and organization? How can we think, explore, critique - and perhaps alter - the organizational bodies and scripts that shape contemporary life

Who’s afraid of the senses? Organization, management and the return of the sensorium

Organization and management are the perpetual, and perpetually fraught and resisted, ordering of sense experience. However, banning the senses into the outside of thought, and of organizational analysis, was – and to a large degree still is – the default and mostly implicit and unquestioned mode of thinking and studying organization and management. Introducing the special issue on ‘The Senses in Management Research and Education’, this essay historicizes and contextualizes the neglect of the senses, dwells upon possible reasons for keeping the sensory at bay and discusses recent attempts to remedy this situation. The contributions to the special issue are introduced into this context. In conclusion, we speculate on what might happen next

Adorno?s Grey, Taussig?s Blue: Colour, Organization and Critical Affect

In this article we seek to open up the study of affect and organization to colour. Often simply taken for granted in organizational life and usually neglected in organizational thought, colour is an affective force by default. Deploying and interweaving the languages of affect theory, critical theory, and organization studies, we discuss colour as a primary phenomenon for the study of ?critical affect?. We then trace colour?s affect in conditioning the unfolding of organization in two particular ?colour/spaces? ? Adorno?s grey and Taussig?s blue of our title ? and discuss both its ambiguity and critical potential. Finally, we ponder what colour might do to the style of an organizational scholarship attuned to affect, where sentences blur with things and forces more than they seek to represent them

Narrating urban entrepreneurship : a matter of imagineering?

The battle between cities with regard to their creative possibilities has evolved into a process of multiplying ever-new images and variegated stories of urban attractiveness and success. Engineering "cool" images and "hot" stories about one's city is now a central endeavor in the narratives of urban policy-making that center more and more on the idea of the entrepreneurial city. The making of an entrepreneurial image is enacted through various narrative genres that lie somewhere between place making and place marketing, between branding and boosting, between restoration and revanchism, between iconic architecture and mega-spectacle. This "imagineering" is not only part of the way cities try to (re)present themselves as entrepreneurial to various audiences through a real "image inflation" (Zukin, 2008, p. xii) but is 1 Forthcoming in: B. Lange,.A. Kalandides, B. Stoeber, I. Wellmann (Hrsg.) (2009): Governance der Kreativwirtschaft. Diagnosen und Handlungsoptionen. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld. 2 also inscribed in the various ways urban creativity and entrepreneurship can be studied, researched and imagined. In this chapter we aim to differentiate the political narratives of the entrepreneurial city as we emphasize the need to understand the politics of narration and make a plea for critical reflexivity in our forms of researching and theorizing. We will thus try to investigate how the politics of narration is intertwined with the narration of political concepts and will argue that the narrating of urban entrepreneurship can raise very different images and discourses of city life beyond those that are currently engineered. We will distinguish between a grand narrative, a counter-narrative, and an assemblage of more ambivalent little narratives, which we call prosaic narration. While the distinction between these three types might be seen as a bit too simple and "straight", we believe that by juxtaposing these different forms of narration and alternating between them, we can help problematize the engineering of the city as entrepreneurial and imagine alternative views both of city life and of what is understood as its creativity