LEGITIMISING ARGUMENTS AND WORKER RESISTANCE

Abstract

The processes of management control in a variety of formal settings within a small engineering company are examined in this second of a series of articles. The range of arguments commonly used by workers in order to challenge managerial authority is focused on. Resistance was based around a series of legitimising principles, such as efficiency, profitability, precedent, ethics and morality. Whilst use of these arguments may influence the subsequent behaviour of management in a committee, it may not enable them to “win” the issue.

Citation

Kirkbride, P.S. (1988), "LEGITIMISING ARGUMENTS AND WORKER RESISTANCE", Employee Relations, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 28-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055122