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Gabriele Fassauer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis a discourse analytical study
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Ronald Hartz, Gabriele FassauerAbstract:Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the va-lidity of the performance principle as a normative pillar of the economic order was also called into question. Based on the discourse contained in the Frankfurter Allge-meine Zeitung, the following study reconstructs the topoi of criticism and justification as problematizations of a ‘bonus culture’, with corresponding reference to the per-formance principle as a ‘discursive resource’. In this way the aim is to make a general contribution to the understanding of the Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis, while at the same time furthering the debate on the normative validity of the performance principle.
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performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis a discourse analytical study
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Ronald Hartz, Gabriele FassauerAbstract:Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the validity of the performance principle as a normative pillar of the economic order was also called into question. Based on the discourse contained in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the following study reconstructs the topoi of criticism and justification as problematizations of a 'bonus culture', with corresponding reference to the performance principle as a 'discursive resource'. In this way the aim is to make a general contribution to the understanding of the Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis, while at the same time furthering the debate on the normative validity of the performance principle.Key words: global financial crisis, performance principle, discourse, mass media (JEL: A13, A14, M12, M52, Z10, Z13)IntroductionIf the global financial crisis (GFC) has been at the focus of public attention since 2007, this crisis at the latest, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has at least temporarily been seen as a fundamental challenge to the current disposition and the future shaping of the global economic and political order (cf. among others Gamble, 2009; Crouch, 2011; Morgan et al., 2011). The public criticism of bonus payments or bonuses (Gamble, 2009) directed at the actors and organizations in the banking and financial sector may be understood as a prominent aspect of this 'major crisis' (Crouch, 2011, p. i) of the economic order. This criticism of the so-called tonus culture' (ibid., p. 3) touches upon the justification of the current economic order at a critical point, since both the general validity of the performance concept and of the performance principle as a prominent normative and legitimizing pillar of the market-based economic order (cf. among others Offe, 1970; Deutschmann, 2002; Dubet, 2008, pp. 23ff.) are being called into question. If one understands the performance principle to be a collective norm, which, in a society based on the division of labour, is 'the sole method for the construction of fair inequalities' (Dubet, 2008, p. 24) justifying and legitimizing Social inequality and permissiveness, the implications of the problematization of bonus payments for Social cohesion and the legitimacy of corporate behaviour become clear. The collective image of the banquet and feast, 'marked by excess and exuberance, summed up for many in the jubilant faces of City traders celebrating their annual and increasingly extravagant bonuses' (Gamble, 2009, p. 3), thus sums up iconographically this crisis of legitimacy and confidence as a crisis of the distributive fairness of the market-based economic order and of the organizational compensation practices that occur.Through our exploratory study we would like to make a general contribution to the understanding of this Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis. In particular, we specifically reconstruct the problematization of bonus payments as it can be seen in the mass media. In doing so, we pursue two goals: first, the aim is to reconstruct this problematization of organizational compensation practices in the form of bonus payments in relation to the fundamental Social norm represented by the 'performance principle'. By reconstructing the mass media discourse on the 'bonus culture' (Gamble, 2009, p. 3), we aim to contribute to an understanding of the discursive construction and treatment of the GFC. This crisis is, according to MacKenzie (2009, p. 178), 'amongst other things, a crisis of the infrastructure of the financial world: not of its technological infrastructure, where only limited difficulties were manifest, but of its cognitive infrastructure'. In this sense, economic processes and events, as well as the associated organizational activities are unavoidably embedded culturally and treated semiotically in many different ways (cf. …
Barbara Hayton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the cultural context of anxiety disorders
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1995Co-Authors: Laurence J Kirmayer, Allan H Young, Barbara HaytonAbstract:This article summarizes current knowledge about Social and ethnocultural variations in the prevalence of anxiety disorders as well as in their symptomatology and course. Some of the substantial differences in rates found in clinical epidemiologic studies probably are related to differential patterns of help-seeking among different ethnic groups. Cultural factors play an important role in the interpretation of behaviors, that is, whether there are reasons in family or Social dynamics to make biased judgments about others. Substantial differences also have been found in the symptomatology of culture-related forms of anxiety disorders with variations in content and focus, and in accompanying somatic manifestations as well. Through the case study of a woman with post-traumatic stress disorder, the Social Embedding and cultural meaning of anxiety in clinical practice are described, and culturally responsive strategies for diagnosis and treatment are outlined. Clinicians should be encouraged to think of innovative ways of approaching anxiety in its Social and cultural context.
Laurence J Kirmayer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the process of cultural consultation
2014Co-Authors: Laurence J Kirmayer, Eric G Jarvis, Jaswant GuzderAbstract:In this chapter, we describe the process of cultural consultations in terms of the specific steps from intake and triage, through interviewing and clinical data collection, to case formulation, communication of recommendations, and follow-up. We provide sufficient detail about the actual process to guide others wishing to set up similar services. The CCS team works within the framework of the cultural formulation introduced with DSM-IV, to identify ways that cultural background and current contexts interact to shape the manifestations of illness, its course, and potential interventions. The aim is to complement standard psychiatric evaluation by focusing on Social and cultural dimensions that may be less familiar and that tend to get less attention in routine care. The CCS consultants use models drawn from cultural psychiatry and psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems theory, and ecoSocial systemic approaches that emphasize the Social Embedding of illness experience as well as gender, racialized identity, and ethnicity. Cases are formulated in terms of the interplay of personal and Social meanings and dynamics that include interactions with families, communities, health care and systems. While the consultations use psychiatric diagnostic categories, they also explore the personal and Social meanings of symptoms and include a broader problem list of Social predicaments as well as sources of resilience and potential strategies for healing and recovery. The cultural formulation brings together psychiatric and cultural expertise in an integrated assessment and recommendations for more effective patient care.
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the cultural context of anxiety disorders
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1995Co-Authors: Laurence J Kirmayer, Allan H Young, Barbara HaytonAbstract:This article summarizes current knowledge about Social and ethnocultural variations in the prevalence of anxiety disorders as well as in their symptomatology and course. Some of the substantial differences in rates found in clinical epidemiologic studies probably are related to differential patterns of help-seeking among different ethnic groups. Cultural factors play an important role in the interpretation of behaviors, that is, whether there are reasons in family or Social dynamics to make biased judgments about others. Substantial differences also have been found in the symptomatology of culture-related forms of anxiety disorders with variations in content and focus, and in accompanying somatic manifestations as well. Through the case study of a woman with post-traumatic stress disorder, the Social Embedding and cultural meaning of anxiety in clinical practice are described, and culturally responsive strategies for diagnosis and treatment are outlined. Clinicians should be encouraged to think of innovative ways of approaching anxiety in its Social and cultural context.
Ronald Hartz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis a discourse analytical study
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Ronald Hartz, Gabriele FassauerAbstract:Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the va-lidity of the performance principle as a normative pillar of the economic order was also called into question. Based on the discourse contained in the Frankfurter Allge-meine Zeitung, the following study reconstructs the topoi of criticism and justification as problematizations of a ‘bonus culture’, with corresponding reference to the per-formance principle as a ‘discursive resource’. In this way the aim is to make a general contribution to the understanding of the Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis, while at the same time furthering the debate on the normative validity of the performance principle.
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performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis a discourse analytical study
management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Ronald Hartz, Gabriele FassauerAbstract:Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the validity of the performance principle as a normative pillar of the economic order was also called into question. Based on the discourse contained in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the following study reconstructs the topoi of criticism and justification as problematizations of a 'bonus culture', with corresponding reference to the performance principle as a 'discursive resource'. In this way the aim is to make a general contribution to the understanding of the Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis, while at the same time furthering the debate on the normative validity of the performance principle.Key words: global financial crisis, performance principle, discourse, mass media (JEL: A13, A14, M12, M52, Z10, Z13)IntroductionIf the global financial crisis (GFC) has been at the focus of public attention since 2007, this crisis at the latest, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has at least temporarily been seen as a fundamental challenge to the current disposition and the future shaping of the global economic and political order (cf. among others Gamble, 2009; Crouch, 2011; Morgan et al., 2011). The public criticism of bonus payments or bonuses (Gamble, 2009) directed at the actors and organizations in the banking and financial sector may be understood as a prominent aspect of this 'major crisis' (Crouch, 2011, p. i) of the economic order. This criticism of the so-called tonus culture' (ibid., p. 3) touches upon the justification of the current economic order at a critical point, since both the general validity of the performance concept and of the performance principle as a prominent normative and legitimizing pillar of the market-based economic order (cf. among others Offe, 1970; Deutschmann, 2002; Dubet, 2008, pp. 23ff.) are being called into question. If one understands the performance principle to be a collective norm, which, in a society based on the division of labour, is 'the sole method for the construction of fair inequalities' (Dubet, 2008, p. 24) justifying and legitimizing Social inequality and permissiveness, the implications of the problematization of bonus payments for Social cohesion and the legitimacy of corporate behaviour become clear. The collective image of the banquet and feast, 'marked by excess and exuberance, summed up for many in the jubilant faces of City traders celebrating their annual and increasingly extravagant bonuses' (Gamble, 2009, p. 3), thus sums up iconographically this crisis of legitimacy and confidence as a crisis of the distributive fairness of the market-based economic order and of the organizational compensation practices that occur.Through our exploratory study we would like to make a general contribution to the understanding of this Social Embedding of organizational practices that becomes evident in times of crisis. In particular, we specifically reconstruct the problematization of bonus payments as it can be seen in the mass media. In doing so, we pursue two goals: first, the aim is to reconstruct this problematization of organizational compensation practices in the form of bonus payments in relation to the fundamental Social norm represented by the 'performance principle'. By reconstructing the mass media discourse on the 'bonus culture' (Gamble, 2009, p. 3), we aim to contribute to an understanding of the discursive construction and treatment of the GFC. This crisis is, according to MacKenzie (2009, p. 178), 'amongst other things, a crisis of the infrastructure of the financial world: not of its technological infrastructure, where only limited difficulties were manifest, but of its cognitive infrastructure'. In this sense, economic processes and events, as well as the associated organizational activities are unavoidably embedded culturally and treated semiotically in many different ways (cf. …
Gerhard Krauss - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The creation of a second Centre Pompidou in Metz: Social Embedding of a new regional cultural facility and formation of a strategic action field.
European Planning Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Gerhard KraussAbstract:The present article analyses the process of the creation of a second Centre Pompidou outside Paris, based on the hypothesis that the success of the project depends on its Social embeddedness. It is argued that a strong indicator of this embeddedness is the emergence of a new strategic action field—crystallizing the meeting and linking of different actors with divergent interests, but shared understandings about the common stakes. The process starts from a coincidence of cultural, political and economic motives that have their origins in related fields. These different interests are promoted by a few key protagonists who negotiate a preliminary, but still fragile Social order, mixing idealistic ideas and values with political and economic issues. The analysis reveals that Social institutions of French culture exert a strong influence, while internal governance units in Paris retain significant powers of control. Although new network connections seem to form smoothly around the Centre Pompidou-Metz globally in the region, in both the cultural and the economic domain they have developed quite unevenly.