Learning, power and politics: the dark side?
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Could you explain the 4 differences of 3 assumptions between consensus and dissensus?
Could you explain to me the four discourses (perspectives) according to Schultze and Stabell?
What do both Critical and dialogical perspectives question?
- Role of major corporations in society
- Technical-instrumental rationality
- Existing power positions of management within organizations
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How can power be used as a resource to shape the behavior of others according to the critical perspective? (3)
How can power be used in politics?
What are the basic tenets of the dialogic perspective?
- Decentering the autonomous subject; human subjectivity is a linguistic/ social construct
- Rejection of essentialism; social phenomena have no fixed characteristics, but are structured semiotically by codes and rules, and therefore amenable to linguistic analysis; gender, class, race
- In capitalist society, there is always a struggle for hegemony in the production of meaning and ideology through discourse
What does the dialogic perspective state about power/ knowledge?
- Power is produced through the evolution of social relations, embedded in language and implicated in struggles over truth claims
- Power and knowledge are mutually constitutive
- Power/ knowledge is hegemonial, producing a dominant discourse in the organization that presents existing reality as self-evident and unproblematic
What does the dialogical perspective state about the disciplinary society? (3)
- Power as surveillance, normalization and disciplining
- Panopticon as ideal mode of control
What does the dialogic perspective state about societies of control?
- Power as networked self-surveillance
- Panspectron as ideal model of control
- Chinese social credit system as ideal combination of discplinary techniques and 'the society of control'
Summarise the critical and dialogical discourse. Explain; the character of knowledge, the character of power and the relationship between power and knowledge
How are both disciplines (critical and dialogical) skeptic towards the learning organization?
What is the pro-capitalist rhetoric in the learning organization?
- Participation, learning and shared decision-making will not touch upon the basis of the capitalist system
- For things to remain the same, there must be change in everything
What does Bokeno dissent about pro-capitalist rhetoric?
- Rationality leads to destructive systemic interaction between corporation and environment and work and life (Senge)
What is'Foucauldian'gloom in the learning organization?
- Disciplanary controls enforced enforced by dominant coalition
- Control is even more compelling (more subjective)
- Ignores painful experiences and emotions;
What does Bokeno dissent about the foucauldian gloom in the learning organization?
- Open communicative action as a means to transform organizational discourse (Argyris, Senge)
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