The importance of being aesthetic: work, employment and service organization

Dennis Nickson · Chris Warhurst · Anne Witz · Anne Marie Cullen

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Management and Organizational Studies Art, Aesthetics, and Perception Innovative Education and Learning Practices

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Aesthetic knowledge plays an important part in organizational practice, not only as the symbolic context for work, but as an integral part of the work that people do. It suggests that aesthetic reflexivity, which involves an opening up and questioning of what is known, is experienced as part of practice as well as a 'time out' from practice.

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