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Mølholm, M., & Vetner, M. (2018). The stigma of stress and the absence of agency. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, 6(1), 4–26. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (22/09/2023, 08:48) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (16/04/2024, 15:03) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed Published DOI: 10.3262/ZFD1801004 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 2195-867X BibTeX citation key: Molholm2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Agency, Globalisation, New Public Management, Stress, Workload Creators: Mølholm, Vetner Publisher: Beltz Juventa (Weinheim/Frankfurt) Collection: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung |
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"Seit mehr als 15 Jahren ist Stress ein zentrales Thema und Motiv innerhalb der dänischen Diskurse zum Verhältnis von Arbeit und Leben. Täglich melden sich bis zu 35.000 Beschäftigte aufgrund von stressbedingten Symptomen am Arbeitsplatz krank. Darüber hinaus wird geschätzt, dass stressbedingte Ausfälle und Behandlungen die dänische Gesellschaft ca. 1,9 Mrd. Euro jährlich kosten. Stress ist insofern eine ernste Bedrohung sowohl für die körperliche als auch für die geistige Gesundheit der Einzelnen auf der einen, sowie für das allgemeine Wohl der Bevölkerung auf der anderen Seite. Auffällig an den untersuchten Stress-Diskursen ist die weitgehende Abwesenheit von Handlungsmacht und/oder konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen zur Bewältigung von arbeitsbedingtem Stress innerhalb der Phänomenkonstitution dieser Diskurse. Der folgende Artikel untersucht die Formierung der dominanten dänischen Stress-Diskurse, die sich durch eine Stigmatisierung von stressbedingter Arbeitsunfähigkeit bei gleichzeitiger Ausblendung von Handlungsmacht bzw. -optionen auszeichnen anhand einer Analyse dänischer Management- und Führungszeitschriften."
"For more than 15 years, stress has set the agenda in the Danish work-life discourses. Every day 35,000 employees are reportedly absent from work due to stress-related illnesses, and stress is estimated to cost the Danish society approx. 1,9 billion Euro per year. Stress is a serious threat to both physical and mental health as well as to the general well-being of the population. Compared to other discourses, the discourse on stress is characterized by a notable lack of agency or policies for how to act or, in this case, ways to deal with stress. This article describes how a substantial discourse on stress in Danish journals on leadership and management and in newspapers over a decade has contributed to creating an intricate stress stigma and an absence of agency." |
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The PDF is the entire journal issue (open access). Note that Mikael Vetner has, since c. 2015, been head of the Intitute of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark), and, in the year of this article's publication, was in the top 20 by salary at AAU (Lederne belønnes: Mens de menige er fastlåste i overenskomst-lønninger, fortæller lønstatistik 2018). The language and tone is overwhelmingly pro-NPM and globalisation until the last two paragraphs. Lederne belønnes: Mens de menige er fastlåste i overenskomst-lønninger, fortæller lønstatistik. 2018, June–August. Forskerforum, 1, 16–20.
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p. 22
"Governments and governmental agencies, NGO’s, and public and private companies express their dedication to the fight against work-related stress, and researchers from a broad range of expertise are increasingly warning us that we are headed for a public health disaster."
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p. 23
"Globalization has expanded the battlefield from being a local and/or national to a global arena, and the competitors from being the corporate organizations now include each and every one of us: the skilled as well as the unskilled, young as well as old, leaders as well as staff. No one is safe from anyone, neither the companies, nor those working in them. While the companies are competing on a global scale with every other company in the world, the staff and leaders are competing with every other individual in the world who can do the same job. It is a fight for life, both literally and in the sense of ›life as we know and like it‹. It is an imminent, clear, and present threat that has left the late-modern human being in a constant state of alert and emergency that is calling for an urgent response. . . . It is difficult to see how the problem of work-related stress can be accentuated more than it already is. It therefore seems to be a hopeless endeavor to try and ›win‹ the battle between the discourses on globalization and work-related stress by further intensifying the latter. Instead, we may hope and work for an impairment of the discourse on globalization and a weakening of it power to subjectify the late-modern human being with norms, attitudes, and behaviors that are causing many people to end up in the all too long line of stress-infected individuals."
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