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|a Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara
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|a Personnel management in secret service organizations
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c Barbara Czarniawska (Professor Emerita of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Sabina Siebert (Professor of Management, Adam Smith Business School) and John Mackay (Literature Tutor, University of Glasgow, UK)
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|b Edward Elgar Publishing
|c 2023, 2023
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|a 150 pages
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|a Contents: List of intelligence officers and agents -- List of secret service organizations -- 1. The study -- 2. Getting selected -- 3. Recruitment processes -- 4. The office -- 5. Training -- 6. Line management -- 7. Rewards and sanctions -- 8. Termination -- 9. Personnel management in secret service organizations (compared with standard organizations) -- References -- Index
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|a Includes bibliographical references and index
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|a Secret service / Personnel management
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|a MacKay, John
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|a Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics
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|a "While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out until now on spying as a profession. Through the lens of personnel management, the authors offer a unique and compelling analysis of secret service employee biographies and autobiographies, giving the reader an improved understanding of people management in all organisations. Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations pinpoints key events in an agent's career, focusing on how they enter their profession, how they perform espionage work; how they are trained and managed and what the circumstances of promotion and demotion might be, up to the point of exit from the profession (through retirement, capture, or death). Within this framework, it illustrates the ways that secret service organizations play a crucial role in contemporary societies. Drawing comparisons with personnel management in standard organizations, Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of management and organization. The use of narratology-inspired methods will appeal to younger scholars with an interest in organizational studies too"--
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