Keeping the Bosses off My Back: Power and Knowledge in First Line Management Discourse.

Autor/in	Reid, Zoe
Titel	Keeping the Bosses off My Back: Power and Knowledge in First Line Management Discourse.
Quelle	(2001), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Administrator Role; Adult Education; Adult Literacy; Developed Nations; Discourse Communities; Educational Needs; Empowerment; Foreign Countries; Informal Education; Language Skills; Management Development; Needs Assessment; Numeracy; Self Concept; Socioeconomic Influences; Work Attitudes; Work Environment; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Ausland; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Bedarfsermittlung; Rechenkompetenz; Selbstkonzept; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitsmilieu; Australien
Abstract	Since many first line managers (FLMs) have not participated in formal learning, how they make sense of their roles and the training they are doing is significant. A relationship between inadequate literacy skills and ability to do a job is assumed. Language, literacy, and numeracy must be understood in terms of social practice and creation of social identities. Important to this view is how power and knowledge are used to construct social identities and social practice. Discourse (a set of related social practices that includes interacting, speaking, writing, reading, and valuing a particular social identity) is an important concept in broadening the view of language and literacy. The new work order of fast capitalism has changed organizations. Competencies FLMs need to fulfill their changing role have been identified and provide a starting point to view construction of a fast capitalist discourse of first line management. FLMs' opinions on what training would be helpful in the workplace, how it would help in the job, and what would be different as a result of training have been used to identify social practices FLMs construct in forming their own social identities in the discourse of first line management. Data suggest FLMs' current social practice in the discourse of the work area is determined by downsizing and the casualization of the work force, compliance with government legislation, and satisfying the productivity outcomes of the organization. Training can give participants the opportunity to identify literacies they need to operate in the discourse. (Contains 10 references.) (YLB)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.avetra.org.au/PAPERS%202001/reid.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC