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This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of 'mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth' and critical practices that come from below in a movement of 'not being governed like that and at that cost' (Foucault, 2003: 265). This positioning involves an understanding of transparency as a practice that is historically contingent and multiple, and thus negotiable and contested. By illustrating the entanglement of 'power through transparency' and 'counter-transparency' with reference to the example of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, the paper contributes to the critique of transparency and to debates on the use of Foucauldian concepts in post-panoptic contexts of organising. By introducing the notion of 'counter-transparency', the paper expands the conceptual vocabulary for understanding the politics and ethics of managing and organising visibility.

This paper situates organisational transparency in an agonistic space that is shaped by the interplay of 'mechanisms of power that adhere to a truth' and critical practices that come from below in a movement of 'not being governed like that and at that cost' (Foucault, 2003: 265). This positioning involves an understanding of transparency as a practice that is historically contingent and multiple, and thus negotiable and contested. By illustrating the entanglement of 'power through transparency' and 'counter-transparency' with reference to the example of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, the paper contributes to the critique of transparency and to debates on the use of Foucauldian concepts in post-panoptic contexts of organising. By introducing the notion of 'counter-transparency', the paper expands the conceptual vocabulary for understanding the politics and ethics of managing and organising visibility. ; Version of record

This paper investigates algorithmic decision-making and data-driven profiling as particular ways of producing truth by which "(wo)men govern themselves and others." It starts with problematizing some of the fundamental assumptions on which algorithmic decision-making relies. It then conceptualizes profiling as a "spectrogenic process" in which abstractions are produced that haunt the world, thereby generating material effects of sorting people in/out from a distance. In the final section, the paper discusses emerging forms of governance and the modes of subjectification associated with the current condition of multiple profiling machines. Paradoxically, in the context of post-truth, these forms produce a hyper-facticity that governs by circumventing reflexivity, grounding government in computational truth, and substituting ethico-political decisions by calculations.

Der "regierbare Mensch" ist keine Naturgegebenheit. Er muss vielmehr durch vielfältige Techniken und Praktiken hergestellt werden. Dieser Aufgabe haben sich die diversen "Menschenregierungskünste" verschrieben. In diesem Beitrag wird mit Bezug auf Michel Foucault auf die Logik der Produktion des regierbaren Menschen eingegangen. Anhand konkreter Beispiele aus der Organisationspsychologie und der Personalführung wird dieser (prekäre) Produktionsprozess veranschaulicht. Der flexible und anpassungsfähige Mensch, den das post-disziplinäre Regime bzw. die "Kontrollgesellschaft" (G. Deleuze) (er)fordert, stellt diese Produktionslogik zum Teil in Frage bzw. gibt ihr eine neue Wendung: Gefordert wird das "selbstverantwortliche" und "unternehmerische" Subjekt, das sich selbst regiert und wie ein Unternehmen "führt" und zur "Kompetenzmaschine" (M. Foucault) mutiert. In dem Beitrag wird das Wie der Produktion in den in den Vordergrund gerückt. Im abschließenden Teil wird über Implikationen bzw. mögliche Fluchtlinien der Kritik reflektiert, die sich (auch) für eine Personalwissenschaft ergeben, die sich nicht als Teil der "Menschenregierungskünste" versteht, sondern zu diesen in einem Verhältnis reflexiver Distanz steht. ; The "governable person" is not naturally given. Rather, it has to be produced by a variety of technologies and practices. This is the task of diverse "arts of government". In this paper the logic of the production of the governable person is analysed with reference to Michel Foucault and illustrated through concrete examples from the fields of human resource management and organizational psychology. In the post-disciplinary regime of enterprise or the "society of control" (G. Deleuze) the logic is partially questioned and given a new twist. What is required is the self-responsible and adaptable subject, who governs him/herself like an enterprise and mutates into a "competency machine" (M. Foucault). By posing the question of how the governable person is produced and thereby turning the given into a question, the analysis does not proceed by judging in terms of good/bad but rather by provoking questions. The final section reflects upon implications and possible lines of flight for a science of HRM which does not regard itself as part of "the arts of governing" but takes an attitude of reflexive distance to these arts.

This article focuses on our current understanding of the role of activated coagulation factor VII (FVIIa) in coagulation, the current evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of recombinant FVIIa (rFVIIa), and thoughts regarding the use of rFVIIa in spine surgery. rFVIIa is approved in many countries (including the European Union and the USA) for patients with hemophilia and inhibitors (antibodies) to coagulation factors VIII or IX. High circulating concentrations of FVIIa, achieved by exogenous administration, initiate hemostasis by combining with tissue factor at the site of injury, producing thrombin, activating platelets and coagulation factors II, IX and X, thus providing for the full thrombin burst that is essential for hemostasis. This "bypass" therapy has led some clinicians to use rFVIIa "off-label" for disorders of hemostasis other than hemophilia. Based on clinical experience, case reports and limited information from clinical trials, rFVIIa may be efficacious in states of decreased concentration of coagulation factors, thrombocytopenia, and at least some states of altered platelet function. The former two can occur intra-operatively during spinal surgery as a consequence of substantial blood loss and normal consumption. Preliminary reports have indicated that rFVIIa does not increase the perioperative incidence of thromboembolic events. However, full reports from large clinical trials regarding the efficacy and safety of rFVIIa in settings other than hemophilia have yet to appear in peer-reviewed publications. Until adequate data demonstrating safety and efficacy are fully reported, it would seem appropriate to reserve the use of rFVIIa in spinal surgery to those instances where conventional therapy cannot provide adequate hemostasis, and "rescue" therapy is required.

This article provides a contribution to the Foucauldian problematization of HRM. It draws particular attention to Foucault's lectures that were devoted to re-conceptualizing power relations to accommodate transformations that have arisen from the emergence of liberal and neoliberal forms of government. Whilst Foucauldian approaches to HRM have mainly focused on the centripetal elements of disciplinary power in modern management, they have tended to neglect the centrifugal mechanisms aimed at the controlled circulation of flows within networks. The article shows how these mechanisms gain in importance along with HRM's reframing in terms of human capital. Our analysis outlines a number of modifications in the apparatus of power that emerge as a consequence of this reframing, showing how human capital management operationalizes a specific style of governmental rationality.

In contemporary discourse it is almost commonplace to describe societies and work relations as highly individualized. In this article we develop a conceptual framework that enables us to discuss processes and practices of individualization as political technologies. Following a line of thinking influenced by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, we first illustrate three different regimes of work. The main focus is on elaborating and illustrating characteristics of the post-disciplinary regime of work which allows us to systematize fundamental shifts in the way of organizing and managing work. We then analyze contemporary strategies for producing the 'appropriate individual' as 'technologies of modulation' that focus on the production of the autonomous, flexible and adaptable subject. We suggest that these strategies are highly ambivalent and must not be seen in a deterministic way. They are necessarily an interplay of technologies that determine the conduct of individuals and 'technologies of the self'. This is reflected in the process of subjectification that contains both possibilities for increased subjection and for self-creation.