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| Tekijä: | Watson, T.J. |
| Otsikko: | Managers, managism, and the tower of babble: making sense of managerial pseudojargon |
| Lehti: | International Journal of the Sociology of Language
2004 : 166, p. 67-82 |
| Asiasana: | Management Managers Communication Languages |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | 'Managerial pseudojargon' (hereafter as: m-p.) is a form of language widely used in corporate settings. It is often criticized by organizational workers themselves and such critics recognize that it fulfils functions such as perpetuating in-group / out-group relations, enabling individuals to gain advantage over others and giving managers confidence in the face of the anxieties of corporate and managerial life ('whistling in the dark'). The phenomenon can also be understood sociologically and related to the particular modernist discourse of 'managism'. M-p. sometimes uses expressions that are weakly discursive and sometimes utilizes strongly discursive terms. It is significantly implicated in the mystification of managerial work and the neutralizing of the political and value dimensions of management. |
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