Projects / Programmes
Managerial discourse and post-socialist transition, ethical, political and ideological implication
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Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.06.00 |
Social sciences |
Political science |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S170 |
Social sciences |
Political and administrative sciences |
Managerial discourse, post-socialist transition, ethics, political and ideological implication
Researchers (5)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Managerial discourse is not a self-evident phenomenon, but a highly sophisticated, exceedingly complex and interdisciplinary product, which has become both a part of the contemporary world and science in the period after the WWII. In Slovenia, it emerged in all its entirety, depth and intensity at the same time as processes, colloquially called post-socialist transition. It has been present, in a more or less systematic way for more than a decade. More importantly, from a discourse and communication point of view, managerial discourse has become a new dominant within the last decade, which replaced the previously dominating parlance, self-managing discourse. Yet it is necessary to point out that the managerial discourse is far from being only a phenomenon narrowly connected with and limited to the field of entrepreneurship and business. On the contrary, it has become the discourse type which indubitably dominates in all areas of public life, from sports to government policies, from education to health care. To put it differently, it seems that everybody speaks "the language of management", with a distinguished feature that this is a completely new, highly complex and difficult phenomenon, which is based on a supposition that everybody understands it. That, of course, is far from being true. Managerial discourse is a highly complex code, a communication type which is difficult to decipher and far from being self-evident, let alone natural. On the other hand, the research about the influence of this extremely difficult postmodernist discursive phenomenon on other discourse phenomena and discourse practice in general, is rather scarce in Slovenia.
