An exploratory study on the representations of organization, manager and management within a group of management teachers in a business school.

摘要

The dissertation aims to characterize the nature of the conceptualizations of organization, manager and management from a discursive point of view in an educational environment taken as a capitalist organization responsible for the manager's education and to unveil the consequences of the adoption of a certain vocabulary within that education as a an organizational product It is a qualitative, exploratory study empirically centered in the intra and extra classroom educational praxis of a group of management teachers in a business school in Canada. The study applies the modern and contemporary critical writings on organization and management, the concept of ideal type, and a critical approach to education to study the vocabulary of the manager's education. Through the proposed theoretical approach and innovative methodological procedures (representational horizons and fiction-oriented interviews) it is possible to establish the paradigmatic context of the conceptualizations and some important epistemological and theoretical implications in the manager's education. The study concludes that by mirroring the general trend of the academic and consultancy-oriented produce of the prevailing literature is the organization and management domain the discourse presents the following characteristics. (1) The organization, manager and management conceptualization the teachers who participated of the project socialize and reproduce in their praxis is largely built through an undiscriminating vocabulary for the three conceptualizations that therefore contains many misplaced concepts. (2) Those conceptualizations express the intent of cognitive politics. The paradigm resulting from the teachers' organization, manager and management conceptualizations has four main characteristics. (1) It is an 'idealtypification' (it builds knowledge from a very small number of variables as if those variables were the ones actually present in the 'real world'). (2) It is a heavily edited discourse that induces an allegorical approach to the conceptualizations (when adopting metaphors, analogies and comparisons the conceptualizations tend to edit out many of their important implications be them moral, practical or operational ones). (3) Even heavily edited the resulting discourse is ambiguous (it contains many divergent, and/or contradictory, and/or excluding concepts). (4) It is a political statement (at induces the adoption of ideological motions).