Only the Wearer Knows Where the Shoe Pinches?
| Autor: | Christian Dyrlund Wåhlin-Jacobsen, Johan Simonsen Abildgaard |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Conversation analysis business.industry Communication Safety and well-being 05 social sciences Control (management) Participation Citizen journalism Deontics Public relations Workplace health Epistemics Problem and solution work 0502 economics and business Well-being 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Discourse & Communication. 14(1):44-64 |
| ISSN: | 1750-4821 1750-4813 |
| Popis: | In participatory activities in the workplace, employees are invited to raise problems and suggest improvements to the management. Although it is widely acknowledged that employees rarely control decisions in these settings, little is known about the interactional resources that employees and managers draw upon when negotiating consensus about which initiatives to pursue in the future. We analyse interactions from participatory meetings in an industrial setting in relation to the topic of work shoes, showing how the participants orient to both their relative deontic rights (e.g. who can suggest and decide on initiatives) and epistemic rights (e.g. who can define a situation as problematic and assert what can be done about it). The analysis suggests that besides their low deontic status, employees’ fragile epistemic status constitutes an important but overlooked challenge to achieving improved working conditions through the participatory activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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