Orange on the Inside

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-170
Author(s):  
Sarah Waters
Keyword(s):  
Shareholder Value ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Model Following ◽  
Causal Connections ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Witness Statements ◽  
The Individual ◽  
France Télécom

Chapter four examines the suicide crisis at France Télécom, situating this in the shift to a new finance-driven management model, following the company’s privatisation, whereby the search for shareholder value became the overarching strategic goal of the company. I draw on scholarship on financialisation and in particular, the rise of shareholder value, examining its impact on the changing status and conditions of labour. Suicides were not an aberration in an otherwise smooth-functioning system, but the consequence of systemic processes that sought to remove labour from the workplace as an obstacle to extraneous financial goals. The chapter examines the structural transformations of the company which transformed the perceived value of the individual worker and considers the new expulsionary management tactics that characterised the Next restructuring plan. The chapter draws on testimonial material, including suicide letters and witness statements drawn from a legal case taken by a work inspector against the company in 2010 which culminated in the recent criminal trial against the company’s former bosses. An analysis of this testimonial material allows us to reconstruct the causal connections that link structural transformations in the company to the acute suffering that triggered an act of self-killing.

scholarly journals Le roman d’entreprise: Breaking the silence

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marks
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
France Télécom

This article looks at three recent French novels in order to explore key themes in what has become known as the roman d’entreprise: Pierre Mari’s Résolution (2005), Nathalie Kuperman’s Nous étions des êtres vivants (2010) and Thierry Beinstingel’s Retour aux mots sauvages (2010). The figure of the entreprise functions both as a fictional representation of the post-Fordist workplace environment in companies such as France Télécom, and also as a means of tackling wider issues of work and social organisation in an era of neoliberal managerialism. The concepts of capitalist realism, organisational miasma and virtuality are used to analyse the ways in which the three novels convey the distinctive affective landscape of the contemporary entreprise. Fiction is used to consider the prolix and self-referential nature of the managerialist entreprise, which enables it to exert a significant influence on the individual and collective subjectivities of employees. The three novels focus on the capacity of the entreprise to capture language and impose an affect of silence on employees.

Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction

Traditio ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 17-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Eden
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
Legal Code ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ethical Presuppositions

Reading the Poetics in light of Aristotle's most complete statements of equity in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Rhetoric, this essay undertakes to demonstrate how and why Aristotle develops an art of poetry within the context of a science of ethics. It seeks to show, that is, how in direct response to Plato's epistemological and ethical objections to tragedy, Aristotle's argument for the preservation of the literary arts follows from a fundamental conviction that poetry shares not only its object of inquiry but also its method of inquiry with the ethical and legal sciences. Like moral philosophy or ethics, tragedy investigates human action. To this end, it relies on the mechanism of ‘fiction’ (πoíησις), which clearly emerges in the course of the Poetics as the literary counterpart to ‘equity’ in the disciplines of ethics and law. As logical constructs, both fiction and equity are designed to qualify ethical action by negotiating between universal propositions — the general ethical presuppositions of the poet's audience or the advocate's legal code — and particular circumstances — the details of the plot or the events of the individual legal case.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR FORMAL WORKERS IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-344
Author(s):  
Novy Karmelita Indrawati ◽  
Sri Umi Mintarti Widjaja ◽  
Wahjoedi ◽  
Agung Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Basic Reference ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Type Of Institution

Purpose of the study: This paper is intended to understand the investment pattern for formal workers in Indonesia. Thus, it is also aimed to provide a specific form of variable construction of productive financial management for workers. Methodology: This study followed qualitative research by emphasizing the active interaction of the subject and the object of researchers in the form of a discussion to determine the ideas or basic reference model of productive financial management, specifically and focus on each individual form in which the organization is located. The data were gathered using in-depth interviews with respondents in the category of civil servants, state-owned and private employees with lower, middle, and upper-level segregation of interests and reasons for making investment decisions. Main Findings: The findings showed that the investment decision making for formal sector workers are motivated by benefits and financial security in the future. Their investment decision also considers the income received by individuals in each type of institution. Lastly, technology contributes to change investors’ economic behaviour. The ease of getting information strengthens the motivation of formal sector workers in productive financial management.    Applications of this study: This study provides an investment decision model for formal workers that can be considered ways to enhance the individual understanding of investment. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study aims to contribute to this growing area of research by exploring investment patterns for formal workers then propose a financial management model for workers.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Perceived Value of Records on the Use of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Matthew James Lewellen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Recordkeeping System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

<p>Today’s electronic documents and digital records are rapidly superseding traditional paper records and similarly need to be managed and stored for the future. This need is driving new theoretical recordkeeping models, international electronic recordkeeping standards, many instances of national recordkeeping legislation, and the rapid development of electronic recordkeeping systems for use in organizations. Given the legislative imperative, the exponential growth of electronic records, and the importance to the individual, organization, and society of trustworthy electronic recordkeeping, the question arises: why are electronic recordkeeping systems experiencing different rates of acceptance and utilization by end users? This research seeks to address that question through identifying the factors that influence a user’s intention to use an electronic recordkeeping system.  Although a significant body of research has been dedicated to studying system use in various situations, no research in the information systems discipline has yet focused specifically on electronic recordkeeping and its unique set of use-influencing factors.  This research creates a new conceptual research model by selecting constructs to represent the technology acceptance literature and adding additional constructs to represent organizational context and knowledge interpretation. It also introduces a new construct: the perceived value of records.  A survey instrument was developed and administered to a sample of public servants from the New Zealand government in order to evaluate the research model quantitatively and determine the relative importance of the factors.  By identifying the factors that impact the use of electronic recordkeeping systems, this research will inform future strategies to improve the capture and retention of our digital heritage. As Archives New Zealand states: “Do nothing, lose everything. If no action is taken, public sector digital information will be lost.”</p>

scholarly journals The Impact of the Perceived Value of Records on the Use of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Matthew James Lewellen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Recordkeeping System ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

<p>Today’s electronic documents and digital records are rapidly superseding traditional paper records and similarly need to be managed and stored for the future. This need is driving new theoretical recordkeeping models, international electronic recordkeeping standards, many instances of national recordkeeping legislation, and the rapid development of electronic recordkeeping systems for use in organizations. Given the legislative imperative, the exponential growth of electronic records, and the importance to the individual, organization, and society of trustworthy electronic recordkeeping, the question arises: why are electronic recordkeeping systems experiencing different rates of acceptance and utilization by end users? This research seeks to address that question through identifying the factors that influence a user’s intention to use an electronic recordkeeping system.  Although a significant body of research has been dedicated to studying system use in various situations, no research in the information systems discipline has yet focused specifically on electronic recordkeeping and its unique set of use-influencing factors.  This research creates a new conceptual research model by selecting constructs to represent the technology acceptance literature and adding additional constructs to represent organizational context and knowledge interpretation. It also introduces a new construct: the perceived value of records.  A survey instrument was developed and administered to a sample of public servants from the New Zealand government in order to evaluate the research model quantitatively and determine the relative importance of the factors.  By identifying the factors that impact the use of electronic recordkeeping systems, this research will inform future strategies to improve the capture and retention of our digital heritage. As Archives New Zealand states: “Do nothing, lose everything. If no action is taken, public sector digital information will be lost.”</p>

scholarly journals   Technical efficiency and total factor productivity in Czech agriculture

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Čechura
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Systemic Effect ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Input Use ◽  
The Individual

The paper deals with the analysis of technical efficiency and the total factor productivity (TFP) in Czech agriculture. The aim is to identify the key factors determining the efficiency of input use and the TFP development. The Fixed Management model is used for the estimation of technical efficiency and the construction of TFP for the total agriculture and its individual branches. The results show that technical inefficiency is an important phenomenon in Czech agriculture and its individual branches. The TFP development is determined by all components, i.e., technical efficiency, scale effect, technological change and management. Their contributions differ intrasectorally and intersectorally, and also in time. Finally, the developments in the individual branches are characterized by idiosyncratic factors, as well as the systemic effect, especially in the animal production. The most important factors which determine both technical efficiency and TFP are the factors connected with institutional and economic changes, in particular a dramatic increase in the imports of meat and increasing subsidies. &nbsp;

Effect of Inter-Particle Sintering on the Microstructure of γ Fe2O3

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 152-153
Author(s):  
K. H. Olsen ◽  
J. W. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Magnetic Recording ◽  
Magnetic Particles ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Magnetic Domains ◽  
Single Crystalline ◽  
Reducing Gas ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Individual Particles

The use of γ Fe2O3 as a magnetic recording pigment is well known. Most commonly it is prepared by dehydration of the ∝ FeOOH to ∝ Fe2O3, reduction of ∝ Fe2O3 in hydrogen or other reducing gas to Fe3O4 and finally oxidation of the Fe3O4 to γ Fe2O3.Because of the known influence of grain boundaries on magnetic domains, a knowledge of the microstructure of the individual magnetic particles is important in theoretical considerations of switching mechanisms. Literature references disagree on the microstructure of γ Fe2O3. Some investigators claim the individual particles are essentially single crystalline ; others claim the particles are polycrystalline. In the present work, we have found no evidence that sub-grains are nucleated during the structural transformations of ∝ Fe2O3 to γ Fe2O3. Rather we have found that the single crystalline character of the starting ∝ FeOOH is preserved through the conversion to γ Fe2O3.

The Competence-Based View on the Management of Virtual Web Organizations

2002 ◽  
pp. 19-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich J. Franke
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Management Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
Management Organization ◽  
Organizational Construct ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Web Management ◽  
Web Platform

The organizational concept of virtual Web organizations encompasses three organizational elements, namely the relatively stable virtual Web platform from which dynamic virtual corporations derive. Virtual corporations are interorganizational adhocracies that are configured temporally of independent companies in order to serve a particular purpose, such as joint R&D, product development, and production. The third element of this organizational construct is the management organization that initiates and maintains the virtual Web platform as well as forms and facilitates the operation of dynamic virtual corporations. Since the organizational concept of virtual Web organizations is hardly researched this chapter aims to provide readers with a better understanding of the organizational concept of virtual Web organizations and in particular of how such an organizational construct is managed. Based on empirical research the author developed a competence-based management model of virtual Web management organizations. This competence-based view of virtual Web management organizations presents an overview of a set of common sub-competencies underlying the three virtual Web management’s main competencies of initiating and maintaining virtual Web platforms and forming dynamic virtual corporations. Furthermore, the developed competence-based management model describes the content of the individual sub-competencies and it explains the purpose, the interrelateness and the temporal dimensions of the virtual Web management’s sub-competencies.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ronnie Ancona
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Intellectual Work ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
The Individual

The book’s introduction discusses both the content of the entire book—the individual chapters—and the early professional career of Sarah B. Pomeroy, who serves as the book’s inspiration. Pomeroy helped to establish the field of the study of women in Greece and Rome with her groundbreaking book, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves. Discrimination against women (challenged in the Melani legal case against CUNY), including professional consequences for being pregnant, made Pomeroy’s early career at Hunter College a challenge. The introduction reflects on Pomeroy’s use of the term “conceive” in Goddesses for her intellectual work and connects that with the conception of pregnancy that impacted her early career. The interdisciplinarity Pomeroy championed in the field of women in antiquity is showcased in the individual chapters of the book, which are briefly summarized.

The sound of silence: Measuring suffering at work

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 1442-1463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Allard-Poesi ◽  
Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Orientation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
Administrative Position ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Narrow Concept ◽  
The Individual ◽  
France Télécom ◽  
Assessment Scales

What realities do questionnaires and surveys, designed to measure stress and suffering at work, bring to light? What realities do they conceal? In this research, we consider self-assessment scales and questionnaires as techniques of visibility that contribute to the construction of knowledge on the ‘suffering subject’ at work. We conducted a qualitative analysis of the questionnaire and survey report conducted by the consulting firm Technologia for France Telecom Orange, after a spate of suicides in 2008–2009. The results show that: (1) the questionnaire used to measure suffering at work views the subject as someone reflective yet rather passive, and their suffering as resulting from an unbalanced relationship with the work environment, (2) the report further restricts this understanding of suffering to the administrative position of the individual, (3) as a consequence, the political, strategic, ideological dimensions and the economic power struggles affecting work are silenced. Relying on Foucault’s approach to knowledge ( savoir), we interpret this narrow concept of the subject and their surroundings as resulting from an assemblage between scientific discourses and visibility techniques; a compromise that conceals debates on the strategic orientation of the firm.

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