Sökning: "rhetoric of management"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden rhetoric of management.
1. Waves of fashion : The consuming production of management control
Sammanfattning : The responsiveness of organizational leaders regarding suggestions related to various managerial techniques has led to the coinage of the ‘management fashion’ idiom. It has been convincingly argued that phenomena like management control systems are prone to trends, and that such trends permeate into the daily life of managers through the use of persuasive rhetoric. LÄS MER
2. Merger and management : University of Rwanda libraries in a transitional context
Sammanfattning : With a focus on management of libraries, this study is set in the context of a merger of the University of Rwanda with multi-sites and campuses. The study explores how librarians, library directors and representatives for university management understand and conceive of the libraries in relation to the merger. LÄS MER
3. Symbolisk organisering : En studie av organisatorisk förändring och meningsproduktion i fyra industriföretag
Sammanfattning : The focus of this dissertation is on organizational change in four industrial corporations. A special emphasisis placed upon the symbolic and rhetorical aspects when changing organizations. Main concepts in the study are symbolic management and management of meaning. Two main areas are discussed in the dissertation. LÄS MER
4. Hållbar dialog? : Retorik i möten om svensk kärnavfallshantering
Sammanfattning : Rhetorical choices and strategies are central to democratic decision-making, especially regarding decisions on matters that are open for argumentation depending on perspective. The thesis considers public meetings on Swedish nuclear waste management as an example of rhetorical argumentation, specifically in relation to the project of finding a place for final deposition of the high-level spent nuclear fuel – with local geological investigation as a critical part of that project. LÄS MER
5. Three Faces of Diversity Rhetoric : Managerialization, marketing and ambiguity
Sammanfattning : Over the past decades, the language of diversity management has spread from the US to many parts of the world, including Sweden, where it emerged in the mid 1990’s. Consisting of three papers, this thesis contributes to the field of critical diversity studies by examining the multifaceted character of diversity rhetoric among Swedish diversity consultants. LÄS MER
