32 research outputs found
Managing fat bodies: Identity regulation between public and private domains
This paper analyzes the relationship between public andprivate domains in contemporary Danish organizationsby examining their increasing focus on the personalhealth situation of employees, and, more specifically,their body weight. This paper combines literature onidentity and management with governmentality-inspiredresearch on risk, morality and the body. The aim of thispaper is to show that overweight people are perceived asârisk identitiesâ, i.e. problem people who automaticallycall for personal management. The author demonstratesthat besides the unintended effect of categorizing overweightemployees as problem people, this managementgoal also run counter to the declared value regardingrespect for diversity in contemporary organizations.Based on in-depth interviews with managers and recordedtalks between health consultants and overweightemployees, this paper emphasizes processes thatsubordinate employees and restrict their autonomy
Vibeke Asmussen & Steffen JĂśhncke (red.): Brugerperspektiver. Fra stofmisbrug til socialpolitik?
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Organizational Professionalism: Social Workers Negotiating Tools of NPM
This article examines how social workers and managers perceive meaningful work and expertise in six care and treatment facilities in Denmark. Based on 29 interviews with social workers (n=22) and managers (n=7), the article shows how New Public Management-inspired tools such as scoring schemas align with social work values such as âclient-centerednessâ and working with the individual welfare recipient face-to-face. The article finds that fitting social work into organizational schemas changes the work practices of social workers and also the way members of this profession define meaningful work and expertise. In addition, the article also finds that scoring schemas cause conflicts among social workers regarding the character of expertise when values of social work (to meet a welfare recipientâs need) must be aligned with NPM-inspired values of organizations (to meet managersâ demand for documentation)
PERSONLIG UDVIKLING â en frigørende proces eller social kontrol i danske revalideringscentre?
Denne artikel stiller skarpt pĂĽ socialarbejderes mĂĽl om at understøtte en personlig udvikling hos klienten. Artiklen forsøger at vise, at dette mĂĽl ofte afstedkommer store problemer hos klienten, der for det meste ikke selv beskriver et behov for at udvikle sig personligt. Med afsĂŚt i et symbolsk interaktionistisk perspektiv viser forfatteren, at det typisk er en rĂŚkke eksterne, sociale forhold, der bevirker, at socialarbejdere koncentrerer sin indsats om dette mĂĽl. En central pointe i artiklen er sĂĽledes, at den ofte problemfyldte interaktion mellem socialarbejder og klient (som forfatteren udforsker) skal søges forklaret (og forbedret) ved at fokuserer pĂĽ konteksten for det sociale arbejde. Denne kontekst er â blandt andet â defineret ved den ulige relation, der definerer mødet mellem klient og socialarbejder
Disability, sameness, and equality: able-bodied managers and employees discussing diversity in a Scandinavian context
This article contributes to research examining the work situations of employees with disabilities. This is performed by demonstrating how able-bodied norms affect the work lives of employees with cerebral palsy in Danish work organizations. Thus, this article investigates how able-bodied managers and employees talk about their co-workers with cerebral palsy and examines the narratives of diversity among able-bodied managers and employees when they discuss the work situation of their colleagues with cerebral palsy. The empirical point of departure is 6 weeks of participant observations in 2 work organizations along with interviews conducted in 13 work organizations with 19 managers and 43 colleagues who work with an employee with cerebral palsy on a daily basis. The article finds two dominating narratives regarding diversity that have to do with being either âdifferent but the sameâ or âjust differentâ. These two narratives relate to the highly praised value of equality in Scandinavia
The role of laughter
The topic of social work does not normally inspire laughter. So it is perhaps not surprising that research into the culture of social work rarely pursues its humorous aspectâthe role of irony and laughter, for example. But if Michael Mulkay (1988) is right in suggesting that the domain of humor allows contradictory worlds to coexist, then this topic warrants a closer look. After all, no one would deny that social work involves a measure of contradiction
Højrup, Thomas & Klaus Bolving (red.): VelfĂŚrdssamfund â velfĂŚrdsstaters forsvarsform?
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En undersøgelse af, hvordan handicappede pü arbejdsmarkedet ser sig selv og ses af deres ledere og kolleger
NĂŚrvĂŚrende forskningsprojekt er finansieret af Ludvig og Sara Elsass Fond, der i efterĂĽret
2012 inviterede mig til et møde med henblik pü et eventuelt samarbejde. Spastikerforeningen
havde rettet henvendelse til fonden for at indgĂĽ et samarbejde om et projekt,
der skulle vise, hvilke forhold der gjorde sig gĂŚldende for mennesker med cerebral parese
(fremover CP), der var ansat pĂĽ det danske arbejdsmarked. De to parter var isĂŚr interesseret
i at fĂĽ belyst, hvilke erfaringer ledere og kolleger havde i forhold til at arbejde sammen
med medarbejdere med CP, da dette var et omrĂĽde, man vidste meget lidt om