In the name of capability’
A critical discursive evaluation of competency-based management development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Finch-Lees (Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author), Chris Mabey (Open University Business School and Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author), Andreas Liefooghe (Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1185-1222 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0018726705059121 |
| OpenAlex | W2110701137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 49 |
This article illustrates a number of ways in which competency or capability-based management development (CBMD) can work simultaneously both for and against the interests of organizational agents. It does so by demonstrating how CBMD might usefully be understood as both ideological and quasi-religiously faith-based. These features are shown to provide opportunities for resistance and micro-emancipation alongside those for repression and subordination. The study employs a combination of ‘middle range’ discourse analytical techniques. In the first instance, critical discourse analysis is applied to company documentation to distil the ideological stance of an international organization’s CBMD programme. Critical discursive psychology is then used to assess the ways in which employees’ evaluative accounts both support and resist such stance. The analysis builds upon previous insights from Foucauldian studies of CBMD by foregrounding processes of discursive agency. It also renders more visible and discussible the assumptions and dilemmas that CBMD might imply
Agency (philosophy · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Emancipation · Epistemology · Faith · Foregrounding · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Beyond Good and Evil
Doing Critical Management Research
Theorizing Subjectivity in Organizations
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control
Does Management Development Add Value?
The Making' of the `Competent' Manager
The Limits of Discourse Analysis in Organizational Analysis
Stories of Development and Exploitation
Too Much, Too Little and Too Often
Nietzsche, Competencies and Ubermensch
Building an ideological fortress
The Arena Thesis
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
Imagining Religion
Elements of a Semiotic Theory of Religion
Varieties of Discourse
From Outward Bound to Inward Bound’
Understanding the new management ideology
Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
Nothing Serious? Candidates' Use of Humour in Management Training
Religion and Ideology
The Postmodern Condition
Sacred Companies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |