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WEEK 4THE NATURE OF MANAGERIAL WORK 1990s
Prof Steve Fox
Stephen.Fox@qmul.ac.uk
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2 readings this week
FOR THE LECTURE
Sims, D.P. (1993) The formation of topmanagers: a discourse analysis of fivemanagerial autobiographies. Bri t ish Journalof Management, 4: 57-68.
FOR THE SEMINAR
Watson, T.J. (2001) The emergent managerand processes of management pre-learning,Management Learning, 32, 2: 221-35.
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Common Themes this
week: Managers formative experiences
These studies return to Marshall and
Stewarts (1981) research policy of
listening to managers stories in theirown words as far as possible
And by doing so, they found managers
cite early experiences from childhoodand upbringing, as well as more recent
learning prior to becoming a manager
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Also check-out:
BBC Radio 4 Podcasts:
Programme Series: The Bottom Line with Evan Davis
Episode: Family Businesses 24 Jan 13 Duration: 28 minutes
Three owner-managers talk with EvanDavis about their upbringing within family
businesses http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/botto
mline
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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
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5 famous managers
Michael Edwardes (b.1930-) CEO, Britsh Leyland
Lee Iacocca (b.1924-) CEO Chrysler
Akio Morita (1921-1999) FounderSony
Marcus Sieff (1913-2001) President Mark&Spencer
An Wang (1920-1990) Co-founderWang Laboratories
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Discourse what does it
mean?
Three different concepts that interweave:
Discourse as everyday speech
Discourse as conversation
Discourses as spoken and written forms
Ways of speaking and writing
Discourses as Discursive Regimes Foucaults - discourse as a system of
representation
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Example: Discourse as
Everyday Speech (Gronn, 1983)
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Ways of speaking with extracts from Gronn (1983)
Expressing
opinion
Factual
denials
Contradiction
Questions &
Answer
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with extracts from Watson
(2003) Lisa Potts Retail Manager
Julian Alderley Manager in Software Industry
W f iti (1)
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Ways of writing (1)
- with extracts from Sims
(1993)
W f iti (2)
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Ways of writing (2)
- with extracts from Sims
(1993)
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Discourse as Discursive
Regimes Foucault [1926-1984]
Explains Discursive regimes as systems ofcategories that structure how we think andbecome part of our culture.
E.g. in The Birth of the Cliniche charts theconcepts of sanity and insanity, whichunderpin a whole new set of institutions:
Asylums, Psychiatry etc..
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Any research project involves 3
dimensions Research topic or
question
Method
TheoreticalPerspective
Methodology: is a
section on how yourmethod fits with your
question/topic and
perspective
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Research Dissertation
A Typical Structure Title
Abstract
Introduction - lay out topic (issues, questions) perspective
Literature Review who has said what so far on this? Research Methods what you have done to collect data
&/or Methodology- why you did this, what you hoped for
My Study bit of background
Data Analysis what you found + workings out
Discussion what it all means in relation to previous lit
Conclusion so in sum: what I now know &/or think
References
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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 betweenmanagement development and corporate
performance?
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Possible Methods
Data Collection
Secondary sources Official statistics
Public records
Public documents Primary sources
Interviews
Questionnaire Surveys
Focus Groups
Participant Observation
Data Analysis
Secondary sources Statistical analyses (e.g.
correlation, regression)
Content analysis Primary sources
Content analysis
Codings + statistical analysis
Content analysis
Content analysis
But how do you do contentanalysis? Lots of approaches (see
perspectives)
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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
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Research Dissertation
A Typical Structure
Title Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Research Methods
&/or Methodology
My Study
Data Analysis
Discussion So
Conclusion
References
Something or Other 2-300 word summary
The topic, questions, plan
Critical discussion of Lit.
So, what I didwas
Heres why I did that
A bit of background
Heres what I found
What it means for the Lit/future
In sum, this is what I think
List of all works cited & quoted
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Essay
A Typical Structure
Title Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Something 2-300 word summary
The topic, question, issues..
and my plan
What has been said by whom..
and why (or how justified)?
What I agree with and why?
What I dont agree with and why? What I think beyond that and why?
In sum: what I think is: One, 2, 3.
List of all works cited & quoted
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Gibson Burrell & Gareth Morgan
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Objective
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Objective
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assumptions:
about the nature of society
Regulat ion
Stability Integration
Functional
Consensus
Rad ical Change
Change Disintegration
Dysfunctional
Conflict
[Burrell & Morgan (1979)]
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assumptions:
about the nature of economic & social science
Object ive Reality exists
independently of us
We can know reality
as it is & proper
research methodsenable this
Human behaviour is
largely determined
Subject ive Reality exists only as
we perceive it
We can know reality
only as we perceive it &
all research methodsare limited by this
Human behaviour is
largely self-determined
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If the social world is an objective reality
Then:
Reality exists independently of us
We can know reality as it is
& proper research methods enable this
Human behaviouris largely determined& proper research shows us how
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If the social world is a subjective reality
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
W f d i di
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Ways of doing discourse
analysis
Thematic analyses of what people sayor write
Historical analyses of discursive regimes
e.g. the appearance of new distinctionsor ideas which become part of thelanguage e.g. Madness & Civilization
Analysis of conversations viewed asdiscursive action & interaction (not to beconfused with Conversation Analysis)
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next week: TWO readings:
For the lectu re:Tengblad, S. (2006) Is there a new managerialwork? A comparison with Henry Mintzbergsclassic study 30 years later. Jou rnal ofManagement Stud ies, 43, 7: 1437-61.
For the sem inar:
Hales (2005) Rooted in supervision, branchinginto management: continuity and change in therole of first-line manager. Jou rnal of ManagementStudies, 42, 3:471-506.
Extra Reading
Hales, C. and Klidas, A. (1998) Empowerment infive-star hotels: choice, voice or rhetoric?.International Journal of Contemporary HospitalityManagement, 10, 3: 88-95.