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Discourse for Normalising What? The Learning Organization and the Workplace Trade Union Response

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Recent critics of organizational learning and its normative offshoot the ‘learning organization’ have posited that conceptualisations of organizations based on knowledge and learning constitute a rhetorical device enabling elites to assert different forms of control through a new ‘normalising discourse’. The paper, whilst 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 whilst ‘the learning organization’ may indeed be criticised as a ‘normalising discourse’, in practice it does appear to be of some practical benefit to unions in the design of discursive arenas for humanisation of the labour process and promoting payments systems that reward competence development.

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

407-431

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volym

22

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • learning organizations
  • normalising discourse
  • union strategy
  • workplace unions
  • rewards systems

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0143-831X