Recent changes in the world of work have modified the conditions of the exercise of management in ways that challenge managers’ traditional authority and identity, both symbolically and physically. In this context, we analyse the “visibilizing process” of managers, through which they attempt to make themselves more visible, in ways that reaffirm their authority and restore their identity as managers. To that end, we develop a Foucauldian framework on power and visibility, which sheds light on the “political economy of visibility” of the manager. We apply this framework to a case study that encouraged a re-spatialization of remote work in coworking spaces. The findings show how the manager in our case study staged his own visibility, by enhancing managerial control, to manage his invisibility and shape his intertwined identities. Through the visibilizing process, the manager legitimated his role, materialized his function, and restored his authority.

工作世界的最新变化改变了管理实践的条件，以挑战管理者的传统权威和身份，无论是象征性的还是实际的。在此背景下，我们分析了管理者的“可视化过程”，通过该过程，他们试图以重申其权威并恢复其作为管理者的身份的方式使自己更加引人注目。为此，我们开发了一个关于权力和可见性的福柯框架，它阐明了经理的“可见性政治经济学”。我们将此框架应用于鼓励共享办公空间中远程工作重新空间化的案例研究。调查结果显示了我们案例研究中的经理如何通过加强管理控制来管理他的隐身并塑造他交织在一起的身份，从而展示他自己的可见性。