Health on the Line: Identity and Disciplinary Control in Employee Occupational Health and Safety Discourse

Zoller, Heather M.

doi:10.1080/0090988032000064588

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“…Chikudate 2009;Collinson 1999;Gray 2009;MacEachen 2000;Packer 2003;Zoller 2003aZoller , 2003b) rarely adopt detailed discourse analytic approaches and therefore pay less attention to the negotiating powers of human communication, and (b) because the detailed discourse analytic studies that are available regarding meetings (Iedema 2003;Jarzabkowski and Seidl 2008;Wodak, Kwon, and Clarke 2011;Rasmussen 2011a) focus primarily on the chair's discursive moves. What the study shows is how meetings are used for the purpose of responsibilization, to make employees visible and accountable for risk management.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chikudate 2009;Collinson 1999;Gray 2009;MacEachen 2000;Packer 2003;Zoller 2003aZoller , 2003b, although without focusing on communication as a responsibility or examining discourse in a detailed way as done in the present study. This chapter will allow for a more detailed analysis of responsibilization through a focus on the local, "microscopic" discursive practices that Foucault (1978, 99f) ascribes constitutive capacity.…”

Section: The Governing Of Organizations and Risksmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Governing safe operations at a distance

Rasmussen¹

2016

Studies of Discourse and Governmentality

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This chapter argues that today's organizational risk management, where employees are to adopt routines for proper self-control, is fruitfully approached as what Rose and Miller (1992) term governing-at-a-distance. Governing that relies on internal control and the self-governing capacity of citizens requires people to be involved in communication that signifies responsible behaviour. If there is hierarchical monitoring, then it is communication that is supervised which makes the signifying practices all the more important. While previous research has demonstrated that an increasing burden of responsibility is placed on citizens for the risks and health problems they face or envisage, less attention has been paid to the increased communication requirements this development involves. Bridging this gap, this chapter investigates how social interaction in meetings works to facilitate employees to become responsible risk communication subjects. An intensive discourse analysis of five safety meeting episodes demonstrates how the responsibilization of employees' risk communication extends questions of a) form -such as the duration of talk, b) paper work, c) genuineness, d) contributing on-topic, e) economization, and f) reliability regardless of illness and place. The study takes inspiration from positioning analysis (e.g. Bamberg, 2005), allowing for a detailed account of the moment-to-moment process of responsibilization, something that previous research on risk management tends to skim over.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Governing Of Organizations and Risksmentioning

confidence: 95%

Governing safe operations at a distance

Rasmussen¹

2016

Studies of Discourse and Governmentality

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“…Social scientific appreciation of the social construction of risk, safety, and accidents is a distinct shift in perspective. The relatively recent interest in how social processes of organizing and wider socio-cultural considerations can contribute to understanding workplace safety has generated new areas of inquiry (e.g., Gherardi, 2006;Rochlin, 1999;Weick, 1993;Weick and Roberts, 1993;Zoller, 2003).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“As far as is Reasonably Practicable”: Socially Constructing Risk, Safety, and Accidents in Military Operations

Turner

Tennant

2009

J Bus Ethics

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“…This emphasizes the analysis of verbal and written communication including organization stories [60,61], rituals [62,63], narratives [64], and metaphors [65] used by the organization and shared among members and used as a sense-making device [66]. Several recent studies offer detailed accounts of socio-ideological control in organizational contexts [67,68,69,21].…”

Section: Socio-ideological Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%