Margaret H Vickers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 152193 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Margaret H Vickers |
| NOMBRES | Margaret H |
| APELLIDO | Vickers |
| FIRMA | VICKERS M H |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Wellbeing, occupational justice and police practice
This paper examines wellbeing and occupational justice within the police profession. The research presented is based on a preliminary study utilising a qualitative methodology in which 14 in-depth interviews were conducted with rank and file police officers in one state of Australia. The data-set reveals that there are many positive aspects to being a police officer, contrary to the ‘dysfunction’ research that exists concerning the police in whic…
Peer mentoring and intercultural understanding
Disability and dirty workers
Returning to classics on dirty work and stigma, I offer another perspective on the difficulties that disabled people experience in employment. I claim that disabled workers with multiple sclerosis (MS) feel like ‘dirty workers’ not because of the work that they do, but because of their MS. Secondary analysis of phenomenological interview data revealed workers with MS feeling physical, social and moral taints normally associated with being a ‘dirt…
Workplace Bullying as Workplace Corruption
Creative nonfiction writing is used to interpret secondary data and produce a short story depicting events of workplace bullying in the public sector as also being acts of corruption. Creative nonfiction writing enables interrogation of, and vicarious experience of, sensitive, complex, and controversial workplace events. Readers are invited to think, and feel, the events of bullying (and corruption), as well the multiple perspectives involved. Fo…
Refugee and Immigrant Students
The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world. Chapters highlight educational approaches that build from experiential knowledge, draw upon multiple languages, consider group identity, grapple with the complexities of inclusion, address family concerns, promote parental involvement, involve liaison with community agencies, and view cultural differences as educational strengths. While the …
Refugee and immigrant students
A Rhetorical Portrayal of the Sham Face of Organizational Support
The multitude of negative workplace behaviors (e.g., violence, discrimination, bullying, abuse, aggression) harming workers around the world, especially public administration workers, confirms the need for support. Given the magnitude of the hurt and harm that can result from negative workplace behaviors and the evidence that genuine organizational support, when available, can ameliorate their harmful effects, the situation should be a grave conc…
Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace
This article argues that workers in public administration (PA) who are targets of bullying engage in social performances in an attempt to maintain control over their situation. The article considers the literature on social performances, including Hochschild's concept of emotional labor and its emergence in the PA arena. A case study is then presented that includes a nonfiction narrative describing the bullying of a library worker followed by a c…
Supporting refugee students in school education in Greater Western Sydney
Rarely do refugee students entering Australian schools possess the multiple forms of social, linguistic and cultural capital that are taken for granted in mainstream classrooms. While refugees of high-school age are assisted initially through Intensive English Centres (IECs), the transition from IECs to mainstream classrooms presents substantial challenges. This paper outlines the perceived impacts of a partnership program known as Refugee Action…
Violence and Workplace Bullying
Understood as an act of violence intentionally perpetuated by one person over another, bullying is a direct affront to ethics, especially when ethics is seen to be grounded in a primary relationship with and responsibility for other people. Existing research has attended largely to providing individualized rather than organizational explanations of bullying and has not adequately interrogated bullying in relation to ethics. With this paper, we ad…
Bullying as Circuits of Power
It is not possible to understand bullying without considering the concept of power, and yet power has received little systematic attention in the literature on bullying. Framed largely as a manifestation of conflict, or as a consequence of organizational characteristics that trigger unwitting individuals to engage in abusive acts, superficial and clichéd understandings of the power dynamics involved in bullying are commonplace. The focus on confl…
Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces
(2010). Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 7-24
The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints
This article explores and shares the creative journey and interpretive process I experienced when creating fiction as a qualitative researcher. I seek to accomplish three things: (a) to articulate the process of creation and interpretation; (b) to revisit the burgeoning literature that argues for the use of fiction and other poetic, artistic writing as useful contributions to scholarly research; and (c) to show how the creation of fiction can use…
Bullying, disability and work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) who was bullied out of her workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper commences with a narrative about our protagonist, Miranda (a pseudonym), before offering some important contextual theoretical information, including: a discussion of employment concerns for people with disability generally, and for those with MS in particular, a…
Life and Work with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
This article extends my earlier Heideggerian phenomenological work (Vickers, 2001) which explored the life and work of people with unseen chronic illness. Here I report findings of another phenomenological study where I interviewed people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) about their life and work. For around 70% of people with MS, the disease is characterized by seemingly random cycles of exacerbations (relapses) and remissions. Often, their disease …
Friendships under strain
Middle managers in today's organisations have reported experiencing longer working hours and intensified work regimes. These increased pressures, in turn, have led to growing difficulty in addressing the integration of their work and personal lives. In an exploratory study of the daily workplace experiences of Australian middle managers and the impacts on their personal lives, one of the key themes to emerge was respondents' concerns about the ne…
Autoethnography as Sensemaking
This autoethnography shares my experiences of being bullied at work. I approach this autoethnography using Weick’s (1995 Weick, K.E. 1995. Sensemaking in Organizations, Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar]) analysis of sensemaking, while also valuing the postmodernist recognition of multiple selves and multiple interpretations, and utilising an historical perspective. I offer a series of contemporaneous file notes and corresp…
A Guide to Grief in Public Administration
One of the important questions to address when one considers the governance and bureaucracy of the future is: What about the individual? Traditional governance and bureaucracy focuses on rational features of organizations and groups, rather than the idiosyncrasies and essentials of being human, with hearts, desires, ambitions, emotions, perceptions, feelings, and life experiences that, ultimately, shape all that we do, say and feel. I urge reader…
Writing What's Relevant
Questions surrounding the relevance of what is written about for Public Administration (PA), what should be written, who reads it and what response there might be, are vital. I argue that much of the writing in the PA field ignores many questions of crucial relevance to individuals, groups and organizations, having been overtaken with the vast swathes of management rhetoric that PA scholars and practitioners believe they need. Articles abound abo…
Working in Teams
At a time when teams are increasingly and routinely being used in Public Administration (PA) organizations, the prevailing wisdom about teams continues to confirm that teams axiomatically bring increases and improvements in effectiveness, productivity and communication. There has been relatively little critical address of whether these benefits actually accrue, nor what the experience of team members actually is. The PA literature, in particular,…
Bounded Grief at Work
This article highlights the problem of bounded grief in our workplaces. The article commences by making the case that grief does exist at work—both grief from our personal lives brought to work, and grief emanating from workplace experiences. Then, I present a qualitative analysis that demonstrates grief that can exist in and around our workplaces; the grief of women who are in paid full time work while caring for a child with chronic illness. Th…
Markets and Mobilities
Chaos Narratives to Reinstate the Voice of a Survivor of Mental Illness
The life story of a woman diagnosed with Schizophrenia is shared (in part). Eighteen lengthy, poignant and demanding interviews reveal a “damaged life.” Ellen's life-story, her recollections and shared experiences of life with mental illness, are shared to help us step into her shoes—however briefly. The ambivalence towards her illness is so poignantly demonstrated. The illness that, early on, made her so popular, funny, and full of life became i…
Symposium
Researchers as Storytellers
The author considers the underrated and marginalized role of the researcher as storyteller by sharing stories of her own life, first as a researcher and insider, and second, as one who suffered bullying and abuse at her workplace at the time. The stories are interleaved between the theoretical argument and deliberately stand in the foreground. They are not interpreted in the discussion but attest through substance and example to what the argument…
Researchers as Storytellers
The author considers the underrated and marginalized role of the researcher as storyteller by sharing stories of her own life, first as a researcher and insider, and second, as one who suffered bullying and abuse at her workplace at the time. The stories are interleaved between the theoretical argument and deliberately stand in the foreground. They are not interpreted in the discussion but attest through substance and example to what the argument…
The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints
This article explores and shares the creative journey and interpretive process I experienced when creating fiction as a qualitative researcher. I seek to accomplish three things: (a) to articulate the process of creation and interpretation; (b) to revisit the burgeoning literature that argues for the use of fiction and other poetic, artistic writing as useful contributions to scholarly research; and (c) to show how the creation of fiction can use…
Autoethnography as Sensemaking
This autoethnography shares my experiences of being bullied at work. I approach this autoethnography using Weick’s (1995 Weick, K.E. 1995. Sensemaking in Organizations, Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar]) analysis of sensemaking, while also valuing the postmodernist recognition of multiple selves and multiple interpretations, and utilising an historical perspective. I offer a series of contemporaneous file notes and corresp…
Violence and Workplace Bullying
Understood as an act of violence intentionally perpetuated by one person over another, bullying is a direct affront to ethics, especially when ethics is seen to be grounded in a primary relationship with and responsibility for other people. Existing research has attended largely to providing individualized rather than organizational explanations of bullying and has not adequately interrogated bullying in relation to ethics. With this paper, we ad…
Bullying as Circuits of Power
It is not possible to understand bullying without considering the concept of power, and yet power has received little systematic attention in the literature on bullying. Framed largely as a manifestation of conflict, or as a consequence of organizational characteristics that trigger unwitting individuals to engage in abusive acts, superficial and clichéd understandings of the power dynamics involved in bullying are commonplace. The focus on confl…
Peer mentoring and intercultural understanding
Supporting refugee students in school education in Greater Western Sydney
Rarely do refugee students entering Australian schools possess the multiple forms of social, linguistic and cultural capital that are taken for granted in mainstream classrooms. While refugees of high-school age are assisted initially through Intensive English Centres (IECs), the transition from IECs to mainstream classrooms presents substantial challenges. This paper outlines the perceived impacts of a partnership program known as Refugee Action…
Friendships under strain
Middle managers in today's organisations have reported experiencing longer working hours and intensified work regimes. These increased pressures, in turn, have led to growing difficulty in addressing the integration of their work and personal lives. In an exploratory study of the daily workplace experiences of Australian middle managers and the impacts on their personal lives, one of the key themes to emerge was respondents' concerns about the ne…
Stigma, Work, and “Unseen” Illness
Phenomenological research into life and work for people with invisible chronic illness has revealed many examples of stigmatization. In trying to make sense of one particular case, the available literature on stigma is helpful yet unsatisfying, especially when considering life and work for those with unseen illness. The article presents a review of the stigma literature followed by the presentation of a taxonomy of potential determinants and detr…
The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures
Journal Article The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures Get access Elizabeth Angelicoussis , with photographs by Raoul Laev and Ken Walton (Monumenta Artis Romanae xxx). Mainz : von Zabern , 2001 . ISBN 3-8053-2697-1 . 189 pp., 43 figs., 95 b. & w. illus. DM 140,19. Michael Vickers Michael Vickers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages …
Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces
(2010). Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 7-24
Disability and dirty workers
Returning to classics on dirty work and stigma, I offer another perspective on the difficulties that disabled people experience in employment. I claim that disabled workers with multiple sclerosis (MS) feel like ‘dirty workers’ not because of the work that they do, but because of their MS. Secondary analysis of phenomenological interview data revealed workers with MS feeling physical, social and moral taints normally associated with being a ‘dirt…
Workplace Bullying as Workplace Corruption
Creative nonfiction writing is used to interpret secondary data and produce a short story depicting events of workplace bullying in the public sector as also being acts of corruption. Creative nonfiction writing enables interrogation of, and vicarious experience of, sensitive, complex, and controversial workplace events. Readers are invited to think, and feel, the events of bullying (and corruption), as well the multiple perspectives involved. Fo…
Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace
This article argues that workers in public administration (PA) who are targets of bullying engage in social performances in an attempt to maintain control over their situation. The article considers the literature on social performances, including Hochschild's concept of emotional labor and its emergence in the PA arena. A case study is then presented that includes a nonfiction narrative describing the bullying of a library worker followed by a c…
A Guide to Grief in Public Administration
One of the important questions to address when one considers the governance and bureaucracy of the future is: What about the individual? Traditional governance and bureaucracy focuses on rational features of organizations and groups, rather than the idiosyncrasies and essentials of being human, with hearts, desires, ambitions, emotions, perceptions, feelings, and life experiences that, ultimately, shape all that we do, say and feel. I urge reader…
A Rhetorical Portrayal of the Sham Face of Organizational Support
The multitude of negative workplace behaviors (e.g., violence, discrimination, bullying, abuse, aggression) harming workers around the world, especially public administration workers, confirms the need for support. Given the magnitude of the hurt and harm that can result from negative workplace behaviors and the evidence that genuine organizational support, when available, can ameliorate their harmful effects, the situation should be a grave conc…
Writing What's Relevant
Questions surrounding the relevance of what is written about for Public Administration (PA), what should be written, who reads it and what response there might be, are vital. I argue that much of the writing in the PA field ignores many questions of crucial relevance to individuals, groups and organizations, having been overtaken with the vast swathes of management rhetoric that PA scholars and practitioners believe they need. Articles abound abo…
Bounded Grief at Work
This article highlights the problem of bounded grief in our workplaces. The article commences by making the case that grief does exist at work—both grief from our personal lives brought to work, and grief emanating from workplace experiences. Then, I present a qualitative analysis that demonstrates grief that can exist in and around our workplaces; the grief of women who are in paid full time work while caring for a child with chronic illness. Th…
Chronic illness
This paper examines the largely under-researched area of management attitudes toward chronically ill and disabled persons in the workplace and argues that it is a matter of urgency for management to consider the legal, sociological and economic ramifications of recent legislative moves which seek to protect the rights of such citizens. The issues of power, group behaviour and discrimination are explored, as is society's treatment of so- called ‘d…
The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture, I, The Portraits
The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture, I, The Portraits Get access Jane Fejfer and Edmund Southworth . London , HMSO , 1991 . ISBN 0-11-290480-7 . 70 pp., + 26 pp. of [66] b. & w. illus. £45. Michael Vickers Michael Vickers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 104–105, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/5.1.104 Published: 01 June 1993
Chronic illness
This paper examines the largely under-researched area of management attitudes toward chronically ill and disabled persons in the workplace and argues that it is a matter of urgency for management to consider the legal, sociological and economic ramifications of recent legislative moves which seek to protect the rights of such citizens. The issues of power, group behaviour and discrimination are explored, as is society's treatment of so- called ‘d…
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts
Journal Article Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts Get access Vaughan Hart . London , Routledge , 1994 . ISBN 0-415-09031-8 . 266 pp., 46 b.&w. illus. £50. Michael Vickers Michael Vickers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/8.2.222 Published: 01 December 1996
Stigma, Work, and “Unseen” Illness
Phenomenological research into life and work for people with invisible chronic illness has revealed many examples of stigmatization. In trying to make sense of one particular case, the available literature on stigma is helpful yet unsatisfying, especially when considering life and work for those with unseen illness. The article presents a review of the stigma literature followed by the presentation of a taxonomy of potential determinants and detr…
Unseen chronic illness and work
Presents extracts from the stories of mid‐career women who have unseen chronic illness, exemplifying numerous gender and work‐related issues. Uses Heideggerian phenomenology to understand the experience of being a woman with an unseen illness, who also works full time. Eight women were interviewed. These women were seen to reside “in‐between” wellness and sickness, junior and senior organisational roles, and home and work responsibilities. They s…
The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures
Journal Article The Holkham Collection of Classical Sculptures Get access Elizabeth Angelicoussis , with photographs by Raoul Laev and Ken Walton (Monumenta Artis Romanae xxx). Mainz : von Zabern , 2001 . ISBN 3-8053-2697-1 . 189 pp., 43 figs., 95 b. & w. illus. DM 140,19. Michael Vickers Michael Vickers Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages …
Researchers as Storytellers
The author considers the underrated and marginalized role of the researcher as storyteller by sharing stories of her own life, first as a researcher and insider, and second, as one who suffered bullying and abuse at her workplace at the time. The stories are interleaved between the theoretical argument and deliberately stand in the foreground. They are not interpreted in the discussion but attest through substance and example to what the argument…
Chaos Narratives to Reinstate the Voice of a Survivor of Mental Illness
The life story of a woman diagnosed with Schizophrenia is shared (in part). Eighteen lengthy, poignant and demanding interviews reveal a “damaged life.” Ellen's life-story, her recollections and shared experiences of life with mental illness, are shared to help us step into her shoes—however briefly. The ambivalence towards her illness is so poignantly demonstrated. The illness that, early on, made her so popular, funny, and full of life became i…
Symposium
Markets and Mobilities
Working in Teams
At a time when teams are increasingly and routinely being used in Public Administration (PA) organizations, the prevailing wisdom about teams continues to confirm that teams axiomatically bring increases and improvements in effectiveness, productivity and communication. There has been relatively little critical address of whether these benefits actually accrue, nor what the experience of team members actually is. The PA literature, in particular,…
Bounded Grief at Work
This article highlights the problem of bounded grief in our workplaces. The article commences by making the case that grief does exist at work—both grief from our personal lives brought to work, and grief emanating from workplace experiences. Then, I present a qualitative analysis that demonstrates grief that can exist in and around our workplaces; the grief of women who are in paid full time work while caring for a child with chronic illness. Th…
A Guide to Grief in Public Administration
One of the important questions to address when one considers the governance and bureaucracy of the future is: What about the individual? Traditional governance and bureaucracy focuses on rational features of organizations and groups, rather than the idiosyncrasies and essentials of being human, with hearts, desires, ambitions, emotions, perceptions, feelings, and life experiences that, ultimately, shape all that we do, say and feel. I urge reader…
Writing What's Relevant
Questions surrounding the relevance of what is written about for Public Administration (PA), what should be written, who reads it and what response there might be, are vital. I argue that much of the writing in the PA field ignores many questions of crucial relevance to individuals, groups and organizations, having been overtaken with the vast swathes of management rhetoric that PA scholars and practitioners believe they need. Articles abound abo…
Autoethnography as Sensemaking
This autoethnography shares my experiences of being bullied at work. I approach this autoethnography using Weick’s (1995 Weick, K.E. 1995. Sensemaking in Organizations, Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications. [Google Scholar]) analysis of sensemaking, while also valuing the postmodernist recognition of multiple selves and multiple interpretations, and utilising an historical perspective. I offer a series of contemporaneous file notes and corresp…
Friendships under strain
Middle managers in today's organisations have reported experiencing longer working hours and intensified work regimes. These increased pressures, in turn, have led to growing difficulty in addressing the integration of their work and personal lives. In an exploratory study of the daily workplace experiences of Australian middle managers and the impacts on their personal lives, one of the key themes to emerge was respondents' concerns about the ne…
Bullying, disability and work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) who was bullied out of her workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper commences with a narrative about our protagonist, Miranda (a pseudonym), before offering some important contextual theoretical information, including: a discussion of employment concerns for people with disability generally, and for those with MS in particular, a…
Life and Work with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
This article extends my earlier Heideggerian phenomenological work (Vickers, 2001) which explored the life and work of people with unseen chronic illness. Here I report findings of another phenomenological study where I interviewed people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) about their life and work. For around 70% of people with MS, the disease is characterized by seemingly random cycles of exacerbations (relapses) and remissions. Often, their disease …
Supporting refugee students in school education in Greater Western Sydney
Rarely do refugee students entering Australian schools possess the multiple forms of social, linguistic and cultural capital that are taken for granted in mainstream classrooms. While refugees of high-school age are assisted initially through Intensive English Centres (IECs), the transition from IECs to mainstream classrooms presents substantial challenges. This paper outlines the perceived impacts of a partnership program known as Refugee Action…
Violence and Workplace Bullying
Understood as an act of violence intentionally perpetuated by one person over another, bullying is a direct affront to ethics, especially when ethics is seen to be grounded in a primary relationship with and responsibility for other people. Existing research has attended largely to providing individualized rather than organizational explanations of bullying and has not adequately interrogated bullying in relation to ethics. With this paper, we ad…
Bullying as Circuits of Power
It is not possible to understand bullying without considering the concept of power, and yet power has received little systematic attention in the literature on bullying. Framed largely as a manifestation of conflict, or as a consequence of organizational characteristics that trigger unwitting individuals to engage in abusive acts, superficial and clichéd understandings of the power dynamics involved in bullying are commonplace. The focus on confl…
Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces
(2010). Introduction—Bullying, Mobbing, and Violence in Public Service Workplaces. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 7-24
The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints
This article explores and shares the creative journey and interpretive process I experienced when creating fiction as a qualitative researcher. I seek to accomplish three things: (a) to articulate the process of creation and interpretation; (b) to revisit the burgeoning literature that argues for the use of fiction and other poetic, artistic writing as useful contributions to scholarly research; and (c) to show how the creation of fiction can use…
Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace
This article argues that workers in public administration (PA) who are targets of bullying engage in social performances in an attempt to maintain control over their situation. The article considers the literature on social performances, including Hochschild's concept of emotional labor and its emergence in the PA arena. A case study is then presented that includes a nonfiction narrative describing the bullying of a library worker followed by a c…
Refugee and Immigrant Students
The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world. Chapters highlight educational approaches that build from experiential knowledge, draw upon multiple languages, consider group identity, grapple with the complexities of inclusion, address family concerns, promote parental involvement, involve liaison with community agencies, and view cultural differences as educational strengths. While the …
Psychology (21 obras) · Sociology (21 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Public relations (12 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Workplace Violence and Bullying (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Law (8 obras)