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What happens when an organisation’s account of a person becomes more powerful than the person herself?
Maya is competent. Productive. Persistent. She builds things that work, resolves conflicts other people cannot resolve, teaches, publishes, represents institutions, and keeps returning to the table.
And yet, room by room, something happens.
An idea succeeds under somebody else’s name.
Work that is visible everywhere disappears from the workload plan.
A public assessment records nervousness but not twenty years of expertise.
Visibility becomes representation without power.
Conflict resolution becomes “intensity.”
A governance complaint becomes a comment about her communication style.
No single moment is spectacular enough to explain what follows. No single person needs to be cruel. Nearly everyone can offer a reasonable account of what happened.
That is precisely the problem.
The Making of #Maya is a literary investigation of how organisations construct the people inside them. Across seven Rooms, Maya’s experiences are examined by an argumentative Greek-style Chorus: Histor, the witness; Peitho, who gives the strongest reasonable defence of the institution; and Elegchos, who counts, contradicts, and refuses to let the arithmetic disappear.
They argue. They interrupt one another. They are funny, infuriating, persuasive—and increasingly unable to maintain the comforting fiction that each room is merely an exception.
Then the argument stops.
Behind the story lies an extensive research appendix examining the organisational and psychological mechanisms staged in the Rooms: attribution and credit, cumulative career loss, evaluative threat, invisible relational labour, gendered leadership expectations, complaint systems, institutional records, epistemic injustice, and the difference between what organisations can document and what their documents cannot contain.
This is not a story about villains.
It is a story about reasonable people, defensible procedures, ordinary records—and the extraordinary human consequences that can emerge when they accumulate.
And ultimately, it asks a quieter question:
What remains of a person after everyone else has finished explaining who she is?
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What happens when an organisation's account of a person becomes more powerful than the person herself?Maya is competent. Productive. Persistent. She builds things that work, resolves conflicts other people cannot resolve, teaches, publishes, represents institutions, and keeps returning to the table.And yet, room by room, something happens.An idea succeeds under somebody else's name.Work that is visible everywhere disappears from the workload plan.A public assessment records nervousness but not twenty years of expertise.Visibility becomes representation without power.Conflict resolution becomes "intensity."A governance complaint becomes a comment about her communication style.No single moment is spectacular enough to explain what follows. No single person needs to be cruel. Nearly everyone can offer a reasonable account of what happened.That is precisely the problem.The Making of #Maya is a literary investigation of how organisations construct the people inside them. Across seven Rooms, Maya's experiences are examined by an argumentative Greek-style Chorus: Histor, the witness; Peitho, who gives the strongest reasonable defence of the institution; and Elegchos, who counts, contradicts, and refuses to let the arithmetic disappear.They argue. They interrupt one another. They are funny, infuriating, persuasive-and increasingly unable to maintain the comforting fiction that each room is merely an exception.Then the argument stops.Behind the story lies an extensive research appendix examining the organisational and psychological mechanisms staged in the Rooms: attribution and credit, cumulative career loss, evaluative threat, invisible relational labour, gendered leadership expectations, complaint systems, institutional records, epistemic injustice, and the difference between what organisations can document and what their documents cannot contain.This is not a story about villains.It is a story about reasonable people, defensible procedures, ordinary records-and the extraordinary human consequences that can emerge when they accumulate.And ultimately, it asks a quieter question: What remains of a person after everyone else has finished explaining who she is? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783948789145
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What happens when an organisation's account of a person becomes more powerful than the person herself?Maya is competent. Productive. Persistent. She builds things that work, resolves conflicts other people cannot resolve, teaches, publishes, represents institutions, and keeps returning to the table.And yet, room by room, something happens.An idea succeeds under somebody else's name.Work that is visible everywhere disappears from the workload plan.A public assessment records nervousness but not twenty years of expertise.Visibility becomes representation without power.Conflict resolution becomes "intensity."A governance complaint becomes a comment about her communication style.No single moment is spectacular enough to explain what follows. No single person needs to be cruel. Nearly everyone can offer a reasonable account of what happened.That is precisely the problem.The Making of #Maya is a literary investigation of how organisations construct the people inside them. Across seven Rooms, Maya's experiences are examined by an argumentative Greek-style Chorus: Histor, the witness; Peitho, who gives the strongest reasonable defence of the institution; and Elegchos, who counts, contradicts, and refuses to let the arithmetic disappear.They argue. They interrupt one another. They are funny, infuriating, persuasive-and increasingly unable to maintain the comforting fiction that each room is merely an exception.Then the argument stops.Behind the story lies an extensive research appendix examining the organisational and psychological mechanisms staged in the Rooms: attribution and credit, cumulative career loss, evaluative threat, invisible relational labour, gendered leadership expectations, complaint systems, institutional records, epistemic injustice, and the difference between what organisations can document and what their documents cannot contain.This is not a story about villains.It is a story about reasonable people, defensible procedures, ordinary records-and the extraordinary human consequences that can emerge when they accumulate.And ultimately, it asks a quieter question: What remains of a person after everyone else has finished explaining who she is? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783948789145
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