[week 04] final msm mgrl wk 1990s (1)

8/22/2019 [Week 04] Final Msm Mgrl Wk 1990s (1)

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WEEK 4THE NATURE OF MANAGERIAL WORK 1990s

Prof Steve Fox

[email protected]


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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

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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.

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