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Sims, D.P. (1993) The formation of top managers: a discourse analysis of five managerial autobiographies. British Journal of Management, 4: 57-68.
FOR THE SEMINAR
Watson, T.J. (2001) The emergent manager and processes of management pre-learning, Management Learning, 32, 2: 221-35.
Also check-out:
BBC Radio 4 Podcasts: Programme Series:
Episode: Family Businesses 24 Jan 13 Duration: 28 minutes Three owner-managers talk with Evan Davis about their upbringing within family businesses http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/botto mline
Sims (1993)
Ten years after Gronn (1983) Sims (1993) adopts a Discourse Analysis perspective DA not CA And he analyses sections within 5 famous managers autobiographies i.e. sections which dealt with childhood and upbringing
5 famous managers
An Wang (1920-1990)
Co-founder Wang Laboratories
representation
Ways of speaking
with extracts from Gronn (1983)
Contradiction
Ways of speaking
with extracts from Watson (2003) Lisa Potts Retail Manager
Foucault [1926-1984]
Explains Discursive regimes as systems of categories that structure how we think and become part of our culture.
E.g. in The Birth of the Clinic he charts the concepts of sanity and insanity, which underpin a whole new set of institutions: Asylums, Psychiatry etc..
Possible Topics
What do managers do? What do managers perceive themselves as doing? What is the function of management? What types of manager exist? What is the relationship between management development and corporate performance?
Possible Methods
Data Collection Secondary sources
Official statistics Public records Public documents
Primary sources
Interviews Questionnaire Surveys Focus Groups Participant Observation
Primary sources
Content analysis Codings + statistical analysis Content analysis Content analysis
Possible Perspectives
Activity Theory Actor-network theory Community of practice theory Conversation analysis Conflict Theory Critical discourse analysis Critical Realism Critical Theory Deconstruction Discourse analysis Dramaturgical analysis Ethnography Ethnomethodology Feminist theory Foucauldian Discourse analysis Functionalism Grounded theory Hermeneutics Interactionism Interpretivism Knowledge management Knowledge-based view Labour Process Theory Marxist Theory Narrative analysis Networked learning theory Organizational learning theory Phenomenology Positivism Post-colonial theory Post-feminist theory Postmodern theory Post-structuralism Psychodynamic theory Realism Resource-based view Situated Learning Theory Social constructionism Social Network Analysis Social systems theory Socio-cognitive theory Structuralism Symbolic Interactionism Systems Theory
Objective
Objective
Regulation
Stability Integration Functional Consensus
Radical Change
Change Disintegration Dysfunctional Conflict
[Burrell & Morgan (1979)]
Objective
Reality exists independently of us We can know reality as it is & proper research methods enable this
Subjective
Reality exists only as we perceive it We can know reality only as we perceive it & all research methods are limited by this
Then
Reality exists only as we perceive it
We can know reality only as we perceive it & all research methods are limited by this
Human behaviour is largely self-determined
Historical analyses of discursive regimes e.g. the appearance of new distinctions or ideas which become part of the language e.g. Madness & Civilization
Analysis of conversations viewed as discursive action & interaction (not to be confused with Conversation Analysis)
For the lecture: Tengblad, S. (2006) Is there a new managerial work? A comparison with Henry Mintzbergs classic study 30 years later. Journal of Management Studies, 43, 7: 1437-61. For the seminar: Hales (2005) Rooted in supervision, branching into management: continuity and change in the role of first-line manager. Journal of Management Studies, 42, 3:471-506.
Extra Reading Hales, C. and Klidas, A. (1998) Empowerment in five-star hotels: choice, voice or rhetoric?. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 10, 3: 88-95.