61 research outputs found
Metalogue: trying to talk about (un)sustainability - a reflection on experience
This paper considers dilemmas for organization and management scholars studying and writing about environmental sustainability. It suggests that sustainability requires new ways of thinking which in turn require new forms of representation to help foster their emergence. Consequently, the paper partly takes the experimental form of a ‘metalogue’ (Bateson, 1972), in which the structure of the conversation between the authors is intended to be reflective of the content of the problematic subject discussed, in this case their experiences of trying to raise critical questions about scholarship for sustainability. This experimental form, which invites the reader to eschew expectations of typical points of orientation, enables an appreciation of how forms of argument seem to replicate epistemological challenges in the sustainability field. The paper shows how metaloguing becomes not only an alternative form but also an inquiry process for considering sustainability that can support embodied reflexivity, critical questioning and appreciation of entanglements of people-scholars
Living with contradictions: the dynamics of senior managers in relation to sustainability
In this article, we investigate how senior managers located in Northern Europe in the energy and power industry coordinate their recognition of sustainability challenges with other things they say and do. Identity theory is used to examine the fine-grained work through which the managers navigate identities and potentially competing narratives. In contrast with other studies we find that pursuing cohering identities and resolving potential tensions and contradictions does not appear to matter for most of the managers. We explore the dynamics of how managers live with apparent contradictions and tensions without threat to their narrative coherence. We extend existing research into managerial identities and sustainability by: showing how managers combine different potentially contrasting identity types; identifying nine discursive processes through which the majority of managers distance and deflect sustainability issues away from themselves and their companies; and, showing the contrasting identity dynamics in the case of one manager to whom narrative coherence becomes important and prompts alternative action
Fontes ocupacionais de "stress": Uma revisão da literatura relacionada com doenças das coronárias e com saúde mental
Muito tem sido estudado nos últimos anos,
o stress ocupacional e a sua relação com
doenças fÃsicas e mentais. Esta comunicação
representa uma tentativa de fornecer um
esboço para o exame deste trabalho, com
o duplo objectivo de alargar a literatura
psicológica existente e os vastos dados médicos
disponÃveis e também o de expor as
lacunas que se verificam na pesquisa desta
área. Dando ênfase aos depoimentos médicos,
esperamos encorajar maior cooperação interdisciplinar na nascente disciplina
do stress no trabalho. ------ ABSTRACT ------ A great deal of research has been cunducted
over recent years in the field of occupational stress and its relationship to physical
and mental illness. This paper attempts to
provide a framework for examining this
work, with the dual objectives of broadening
the existing psychological literature with
the extensive medical data available and also
highlighting the research gaps in this area.
By emphasizing the medical evidence it is
hoped that we may encourage greater interdisciplinary
work in the growing field of
stress at work
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