THE INCLUSIVE ORGANISATION: MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION (EDI)

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150068
Author(s):  
IZABELLE BÄCKSTRÖM ◽  
WAFA SAID MOSLEH
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Organisation Management ◽  
Managerial Employees

The purpose of this study is to explore the inclusive involvement of non-R&D and non-managerial employees’ in processes of innovation. It answers a contemporary call for research to investigate a wider scope of organisations in the quest for understanding the interaction between employees and managers in employee-driven innovation (EDI). Based on a qualitative research study of two global corporations, this paper poses the following research question: How does the EDI approach manifest as a new management practice and thereby influence the interaction between employees and managers? By applying a critical discourse analysis, findings reveal that the production, distribution, and consumption of the EDI discourse are pervaded by a dynamic tension in the power relation between the top-level management and employees. While management enforces the impression that the EDI process is inclusive and engaging, employees remain critical to the contrasting way it is communicated.

Nauczyciel w czasie edukacji zdalnej w polskich tygodnikach opinii. Analiza dyskursu

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Justyna Dobrołowicz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Specific Power ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Activity ◽  
The Subject

The aim of the research presented in this article is to identify the ways in which theopinion-forming press presents teachers and their remote work with students. I assume thatby constructing press statements: mentioning or concealing certain topics, using specificlinguistic forms – journalists influence what readers think about Polish teachers, how theyevaluate their attitude to work and its effects. The problems raised in the research fall withinthe field of pedeutology – a pedagogical subdiscipline examining the teaching profession.Pedeutology helps to understand the specificity of a teacher’s work, analyses its determinants,creates models of professional competences. I have made the subject of my research thepress discourse understood as a communication activity, as a result of which we learn tothink about the world in a certain way. Although the concept of discourse is currently a usefuland popular research category, it still causes many definition difficulties. I am closest tothe sociological perspective of understanding discourse, according to which discourse hasa specific power to create the world, because it provides its participants with ways ofunderstanding reality. Getting to know the press discourse about teachers is thereforea very important matter, the way of writing about this professional group determines howpeople perceive it and how to behave towards it. The method of analysing the 18 presstexts selected for the study is a critical discourse analysis, which was used to answer thefollowing research question: what linguistic means were used in the discourse on teacher’sremote work and what the effects of this discourse may be. In the analysed texts about distance education, mainly expressions with a clearly negative semantic character are used,which in turn leads to discrediting teachers and shapes the belief about the crisis situationin education.

scholarly journals The Roots Of Practice: An Anti-Colonial Critical Discourse Analysis Of Western Nature-Based Mental Health Therapies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Chui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Mental Health Practices ◽  
And Coping

<div>This study seeks to explore how nature-based therapies are understood in Western “mental health” practices. Specifically, horticultural and equine-assisted therapeutic models are examined for discursive themes tied to mind-body connections, attachment and healing. Additionally, texts used to teach specific therapeutic modalities are examined to further explore common concepts such as mindfulness and coping. In conducting a review of relevant literature, similar themes were revealed which contributed to a base knowledge for understanding the discourse around nature-based therapies. Engaging in an anti-colonial theoretical framework and a modified critical discourse analysis methodology, this qualitative study explores the research question: “What are the discourses which inform Western nature-based therapies?” Ultimately, this study aims to develop a more thorough understanding of how these therapies are linked to Indigenous approaches, how practices may be appropriated and used by Western practitioners, and the shift in social work towards more wholistic therapeutic practices. </div>

scholarly journals The Roots Of Practice: An Anti-Colonial Critical Discourse Analysis Of Western Nature-Based Mental Health Therapies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Chui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Mental Health Practices ◽  
And Coping

<div>This study seeks to explore how nature-based therapies are understood in Western “mental health” practices. Specifically, horticultural and equine-assisted therapeutic models are examined for discursive themes tied to mind-body connections, attachment and healing. Additionally, texts used to teach specific therapeutic modalities are examined to further explore common concepts such as mindfulness and coping. In conducting a review of relevant literature, similar themes were revealed which contributed to a base knowledge for understanding the discourse around nature-based therapies. Engaging in an anti-colonial theoretical framework and a modified critical discourse analysis methodology, this qualitative study explores the research question: “What are the discourses which inform Western nature-based therapies?” Ultimately, this study aims to develop a more thorough understanding of how these therapies are linked to Indigenous approaches, how practices may be appropriated and used by Western practitioners, and the shift in social work towards more wholistic therapeutic practices. </div>

scholarly journals “You made it, you take care of it”: Data Management as Personal Information Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Fear
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Personal Information Management ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Quantitative Results

This study explores how researchers at a major Midwestern university are managing their data, as well as the factors that have shaped their practices and those that motivate or inhibit changes to that practice. A combination of survey (n=363) and interview data (n=15) yielded both qualitative and quantitative results bearing on my central research question: In what types of data management activities do researchers at this institution engage? Corollary to that, I also explored the following questions: What do researchers feel could be improved about their data management practices? Which services might be of interest to them? How do they feel those services could most effectively be implemented?In this paper, I situate researchers’ data management practices within a theory of personal information management. I present a view of data management and preservation needs from researchers’ perspectives across a range of domains. Additionally, I discuss the implications that understanding research data management as personal information management has for introducing services to support and improve data management practice.

BEHAVIOURAL IMPLICATIONS OF EMPLOYEE-DRIVEN INNOVATION — A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850058 ◽  
Author(s):  
IZABELLE BÄCKSTRÖM ◽  
MALIN LINDBERG
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Spoken Text ◽  
Inclusive Innovation ◽  
Production And Distribution

This paper examines a digital employee-oriented innovation program at a global IT-firm. It addresses the research question: how is the generation and promotion of employee ideas organised by the management, and what are the behavioural implications in terms of participation of such an organising? Drawing on the literature on inclusive innovation and employee-driven innovation, the authors explore the extent to which ordinary employees are included in innovative processes at work. The critical discourse analysis of written and spoken text exposes inclusiveness concerning the managements’ production and distribution of innovation discourse in the initial phases of the program. However, the analysis simultaneously reveals considerable excluding elements in the ordinary employees’ consumption of this discourse in its latter phases, particularly regarding the parallel discourses “we are all innovators” and “the single winning entrepreneur”.

Rigorous and Relevant – introducing a critical discourse analysis to the relevance debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Izabelle Bäckström ◽  
Kajsa Ahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the notion of “relevance” is produced, distributed and consumed in the field of management research by applying a critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical lens. A CDA perspective offers a way to scrutinize the power relations that emerge with journal rankings and how these influence how the relevance discourse develops. Design/methodology/approach This paper illustrates how a CDA perspective can be fruitfully applied to the relevance literature, exemplifying such an application with two illustrative texts. The texts represent two distinct cases; one is a fictive story informally distributed among scholars, and the other is an extract of a published review on the relevance debate. Findings A CDA lens sheds light on how academic power relations are maintained in the production, distribution and consumption of the “relevance” notion. It shows the importance of individual awareness among management researchers of how the discourse is shaped. Research limitations/implications To increase the generalizability of the study, a CDA lens could be applied to a larger amount of texts in the relevance literature. The findings imply that the relevance literature would benefit from contributions bridging the gap between rigor and relevance, and questioning how power relations are maintained. Originality/value CDA adds a new perspective to the relevance debate, revealing how academic power relations are maintained with management scholars’ adherence to journal norms and the implications of this act.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Nelson Mandela’s Defense Speech I am Prepared to Die

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bader Nasser Aldosari
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Level Of Analysis

This paper attempts to present a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Nelson Mandela’s defense speech I am prepared to die, which was delivered in 1964 during his trial in what is often called as Rivonia Trial. More specifically, the paper tries to explore the hidden relations of power and ideologies that have been encoded in Mandela’s defense speech. The main research question is: what are the ideological meanings Mandela tries to communicate through his speech, and how are these ideologies conveyed by CDA strategies? The paper draws on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), as discussed in the writings of Fairclough (1989, 2013) and Van Dijk (1993, 2001, 2014). The analysis covers two levels of analysis: the lexical level and the pragmatic level of analysis. Both levels are discussed under the theoretical umbrella of CDA. The paper reveals that Mandela managed, by using specific CDA strategies, to communicate particular ideological meanings that reflect his political stance, as well as his rebellious spirit as the most distinguished revolutionary leader who struggles against racial discrimination in South Africa.

scholarly journals A Meso-levels Critical Discourse Analysis of the Movie Rudy Habibie

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1559
Author(s):  
Goziyah Goziyah ◽  
Dadang Sunendar ◽  
Yumna Rasyid
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Language And Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

Movie and discourse have been an academic concern. Based on the theoretical framework of Fairclough concept (1995), this study attempts to make a meso-level critical discourse analysis of a local movie, Rudy Habibie (2016). It explores how the discursive is formed and legitimized in the process of production, distribution, and consumption by the representation of the movie Rudy Habibie. It validates the effectiveness of CDA as a tool to reveal the relationship between language and ideology. It proves that Fairclough’s framework can be applied in the movie discursive study. Pratically it draws the attention to the ideologies embedded in movie discourse and encourages to improve the critical thinking. The findings described the various behaviors taken from the movie Rudy Habibie which are aimed to reveal stereotypes, presuppositions, hegemony, power and ideological stances. As the consequences, this movie became the best selling movie in 2016. The presented ideology delivered the audience through the story of the movie as the result of the text production, distribution, and consumption. The representation contributes to the construction of social power. Furthermore, the research believed having implications for language teaching, especially in CDA subject. Toward the applying of the CDA approach in the course, the student will be able to achieve the understanding of the writer’s style, finding meaning and reasons for particular stylistic choices.

scholarly journals The ‘indisciplinarity’ of stylistics

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandrine Sorlin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Positive Sense ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study

Abstract This paper aims at showing why the stylistician can be construed as a prolific “impostor” in a most positive sense: pledged to no specific linguistic prophet, she can opt for different theoretical linguistic tools (in the sphere of pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, cognitive grammar, etc.) depending on her object of study and what her research question is. The liberty claimed by the stylistician explains why stylistics is the “undisciplined” child of linguistics, shirking any clear definition of its boundaries. It will be argued that stylistics can only exist as a cross-disciplinary field given its conception of language as fundamentally contextualized. If it was a discipline determined by clear-cut pre-established boundaries, stylistics would be far more “disciplined” but would run the risk of serving only itself. The broad goal of this paper is thus to evince that the “indisciplinarity” of stylistics constitutes its very defining essence. With this aim in mind, it will demonstrate what stylistics owes to other disciplines, what it shares with similar language-based disciplines and what it can offer to other fields or practices of knowledge.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TEKS PADA ANGKUTAN KOTA JALUR 2 (DUA) KOTA KUPANG: SEBUAH KAJIAN WACANA KRITIS (TEXT ANALYSIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT LANE 2 (TWO) KUPANG CITY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Valentina Lovina Tanate ◽  
Feliks Tans ◽  
Agustinus Semiun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The City

This paper analyzes the texts written on Kupang City public transport Lane 2. The abundant texts in the corners of the city in various forms and messages represent the language dynamics varied from polite to harsh. This paper aims at explaining the form of such texts, analyzing the production, distribution, and consumption of such text and analyzing their socio-cultural practices using critical discourse analysis method of Norman Fairclough’s. The results showed that only 19.15 % of the texts contains positive meanings and 80.85% of them contains negative ones. The textswere made by the drivers, the owners of the transport, and the drivers’ assistants by writing it on the body of the vehicle. The texts are distributed directly through the city transportation media. The texts are about social rules of the community both positive and negative behavior. Texts have power relations and ideology. Ideologies that participate in the practice of such discourse are liberalism, feminism, religion, and capitalism.AbstrakKajian ini menganalisis tulisan di angkutan kota Jalur 2 Kota Kupang. Maraknya tulisan-tulisan di sudut-sudut kota dengan berbagai bentuk dan pesan merupakan contoh nyata dinamika bahasa mulai dari yang santun sampai dengan yang keras. Tujuan kajian adalah untuk menjelaskan bentuk teks pada angkutan kota Jalur 2 di Kota Kupang, menganalisis produksi, penyebaran, dan konsumsi teks, serta menganalisis praktik sosio-budaya dari teks itu menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough. Metode yang digunakan untuk menganalisis teks adalah metode analisis wacana kritis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hanya 19,15% teks mengandung pesan positif dan 80,85% mengandung pesan negatif. Teks diproduksi oleh sopir, pemilik angkutan, dan kondektur dengan cara menulis di badan angkutan kota. Teks disebarkan secara langsung melalui media angkutan kota. Teks pada angkutan kota di Kota Kupang tersebut merujuk pada perilaku sosial masyarakat, baik perilaku positif maupun negatif. Teks memiliki relasi kekuasaan dan ideologi. Ideologi yang turut serta di dalam praktik wacana ialah liberalisme,feminisme, agama, dan kapitalisme. 

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