Discourse for Normalizing What? The Learning Organization and the Workplace Trade Union Response
Recent critics of organizational learning and its normative offshoot the 'learning organization'have posited that conceptualizations of organizations based on knowledge and learning constitute a rhetorical device enabling elites to assert different forms of control through a new 'norm...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0143831x01223005 2024-10-06T13:51:35+00:00 Discourse for Normalizing What? The Learning Organization and the Workplace Trade Union Response Huzzard, Tony 2001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x01223005 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143831X01223005 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Economic and Industrial Democracy volume 22, issue 3, page 407-431 ISSN 0143-831X 1461-7099 journal-article 2001 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x01223005 2024-09-10T04:23:28Z Recent critics of organizational learning and its normative offshoot the 'learning organization'have posited that conceptualizations of organizations based on knowledge and learning constitute a rhetorical device enabling elites to assert different forms of control through a new 'normalizing discourse'. The article, while welcoming such critique, nevertheless asks whether it is adequate to dismiss the learning organization without proposing an alternative. Moreover, a case is made for serious evaluation of the extent to which learning might contribute to progressive development of the workplace. A comparison of two cases at manufacturing plants in northern Sweden suggests that while the learning organization may indeed be criticized as a 'normalizing discourse', in practice it does appear to be of some practical benefit to unions in the design of discursive arenas for humanization of the labour process and promoting payments systems that reward competence development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden SAGE Publications Economic and Industrial Democracy 22 3 407 431 |
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Recent critics of organizational learning and its normative offshoot the 'learning organization'have posited that conceptualizations of organizations based on knowledge and learning constitute a rhetorical device enabling elites to assert different forms of control through a new 'normalizing discourse'. The article, while welcoming such critique, nevertheless asks whether it is adequate to dismiss the learning organization without proposing an alternative. Moreover, a case is made for serious evaluation of the extent to which learning might contribute to progressive development of the workplace. A comparison of two cases at manufacturing plants in northern Sweden suggests that while the learning organization may indeed be criticized as a 'normalizing discourse', in practice it does appear to be of some practical benefit to unions in the design of discursive arenas for humanization of the labour process and promoting payments systems that reward competence development. |
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