scholarly journals The generation game: Governing through bio-politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762093892
Author(s):  
Cara Reed ◽  
Robyn Thomas

An increasingly popular management tool is to stratify a workforce along generational lines, to distinguish its qualities and differentiate orientations to work. From this, a range of organisational practices, ranging from leadership styles to reward systems are tailored to fit specific generational characteristics. We term this practice ‘management-by-generation’ and examine how it has the potential to govern as a bio-political technology. The article develops nascent work within organisation studies on governmentality and bio-politics to demonstrate the powerful potential of management-by-generation to govern in contemporary organisations. In line with other Foucauldian studies on ageing, it also contributes to the research on generations in demonstrating how a bio-political construction of generation allows management-by-generation to govern effectively, while more sociologically informed conceptualisations of generation could be a source of contestation to this emerging technology.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agussalim

High teacher productivity is the goal and the main concern of organizations as well as an indicator of an edcational success attainment. At the organizational level, work productivity measurements are used as a management tool to evaluate, analyze plan and determine the policies of the organization. As for the teachers, it is used to determine the level of success achieved in carrying out the task, The teachers as part of the human resources in educational organizations must have abilities to take individual initiative risk action tolerance, direction integration, and support from management, control, identity, reward systems, tolerance for conflict, mental attitude and communication patterns. These abilities if built and accompanied by teachers capability and high integrity will lead to the increasing of, work productivity and be able to achieve success in performing their tasks as educators. Productive works in the discipline enforcement require prerequisites as supporting indicators, namely work purposes, exemplary leader, income that meet the minimum living needs (fringe benefits); justice, close supervision, legal sanctions leaders assertiveness and a harmonious working relationship (human relationships). While the success of work motivation through supporting factors for teachers consist of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsic factors are, work responsibilities work progress work challenges, work achievement and acknowledgement on work result. While extrinsic factors are organizational administrative and policies, applicable reward systems, interpersonal relations and working conditions. The survey result of 39 teachers in Ekasakti Senior High School of Padang shows that indicator of employees objective in teachers' discipline is more dominant with a contribution of 16.14%. While for intrinsic factor teachers' motivation in indicator of responsibility is more dominant as much as 11. 71%. From the extrinsic factor, indicators of administrative and organizational policies are more dominant, which are 13.35%. From the teacher's work productivity indicator for task qualifications gives the biggest contribution as 26.48%. Based on the assessment of Ekasakti Senior High School of Padang that in order to obtain good qualification of tasks, the teachers should set the goals to be achieved. through abilities they have and. be able to responsible at the performance of their tasks. It can be realized if the task done supported by good and directed administrative and organizational policy.


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Johannesen-Schmidt ◽  
Claartje Vinkenburg ◽  
Alice Eagly ◽  
Marloes van Engen

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Lundgren ◽  
David J. Knight
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2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslee G. Arididon ◽  
Yzabel Louise S. Bueser ◽  
Danielle Denise D. Pau ◽  
Raiza Elaine P. Ramirez ◽  
Krizia Jane V. Soriano ◽  
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2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime A. Tremblay ◽  
Martin Villeneuve ◽  
Genevieve Roy ◽  
Celine M. Blanchard ◽  
Luc G. Pelletier

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfriede M. Ederer-Fick ◽  
Anita Giener ◽  
Helga Kittl-Satran ◽  
Brigitte Schachner

1962 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
R. Young ◽  
Hurndall ◽  
E.H. Dallas ◽  
A. Kruger ◽  
H.W. Von Hooff ◽  
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