The New Boss

by Niklas Luhmann

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Any organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over. Talk in the hallways increases, staff worry about their jobs, uncertainty grows. Even when the change has happened, problems emerge when the boss who was hired to manage “from above” has to learn about the organization “from below.”

In this book, Niklas Luhmann scrutinizes the relationship and shows how it is stretched to its limit by communication difficulties, demands for self-presentation, and disagreements concerning fundamental values. Many of the tensions crystallize around the question “who has the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781509517916
  • Publish Date 22 October 2018 (first published 5 February 2018)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press