Suchergebnisse

Through metaphor (as ever), we explore some aspects of the mutually implicated con-text, ideo-text, ego-text and sub-text to be found in the contemporary UK academic lifeworld. To this end, carefully selected data from a qualitative study of the changing nature of academic work in Britain is analysed to speculate about how a discourse of performativity ('the RAE') has been 'translated' into what appear to be 'normalized' legitimate forms of organizing and social action. By illustrating how these forms are reflected in academics' liminal 'work talk', it emerges that one possible effect of this holographic process is a spatio-temporal constriction of the academic 'lifeworld'.

Through metaphor (as ever), we explore some aspects of the mutually implicated con-text, ideo-text, ego-text and sub-text to be found in the contemporary UK academic lifeworld. To this end, carefully selected data from a qualitative study of the changing nature of academic work in Britain is analysed to speculate about how a discourse of performativity ('the RAE') has been 'translated' into what appear to be 'normalized' legitimate forms of organizing and social action. By illustrating how these forms are reflected in academics' liminal 'work talk', it emerges that one possible effect of this holographic process is a spatio-temporal constriction of the academic 'lifeworld'.

A discussion of the EC proposals for 1992 on employee participation
in the supervision and strategic management of those companies wishing
to operate as European Companies (SEs); and the effect this may have on
the role of trade unions. The three alternative forms of model of
participation are described and reviewed in the light of present British
practice. The practical difficulties are considered and the three areas
pinpointed where the proposals currently advanced may further undermine
the position and role of British trade unions, these being: (1)
representation rights, (2) collective bargaining, and (3) information
disclosure.

Starting out from Franz Kafka's novel, The Castle , we meander through an exploration of the impact of that seminal socio-digital artefact—e-mail—on the academic lifeworld. In the process, we illustrate not only how e-mail is 'experienced', facilitates instantaneity, deludes us with speed, shapes the working day and accelerates work processing but also the ultimately illusory promise of the 'wired' world to empower us to escape organizational boundaries. Paradoxically, the Castle is always one step behind but it never comes second.

This e-book brings together a variety of papers concerning organizations and organizing that are primarily discursive in emphasis, but which nevertheless attempt to address the intersection and interpenetration of discourse with aspects of policy and practice. In doing so, they make a collective contribution to understanding the nature and complexity of the relationship between these intertwined and mutually implicated domains of social activity