Zarządzanie zespołem więcej-niż-ludzkim w Kociej Kawiarni „Kociarnia”
Managing a More-Than-Human Team in the Cat Cafe “Kociarnia”

Summary/Abstract: The article, which is in the form of organizational ethnography, explores managing a feline-human team and becomes this way part of animal turn in social sciences; especially management. The research problem is management of a team built with various actors – known as resources in management studies – which is placed in the space of Cat Cafe “Kociarnia”. Objects of research are the employees of the cafe, and purpose is the exploration of the principles of animal participation in the team under the hypothesis that animals are workers of the cafe. The research examines in what way and to what extent are the animals part of the team, what roles are they performing, what relationship is occurring between them and other teams members – both human and non-human ones (for example other cats but also the place itself) – and how their membership is perceived by human coworkers. Getting to know cats as a group of workers is only possible by looking at them (with interviews) through the eyes of their human coworkers. The research discovers ways in which cats participate in the teamwork and demonstrates the importance of creating the team along the (non-essentialistically understood) cats nature. There seems to be just one main rule for cats participating in the researched team: to be a cat and to feel good in the cat cafe.

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