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The exclusion of deviant employees: A Foucauldian analysis of disciplinary power in organizations

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Organization

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Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 561-588, May 2026.
While studies of disciplinary power have largely focused on how employees conform, resist, or adapt to organizational norms, less attention has been paid to what happens when normalization efforts fail, leading to exclusion. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s ...