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Going to the AoM?
Please join Human Relations Associate Editor Prof. Mathew L. Sheep at the AoM PDW Workshop:
Publishing in Top Non US Journals – Why and How?
5 Aug 2016 from 3:45PM to 5:45PM, Anaheim Convention Center: 212B
http://my.aom.org/program2016/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=13837
Join guest editors Anders Örtenblad, Linda L Putnam and Kiran Trehan and authors from our April 2016 special issue:
Beyond Morgan's eight metaphors: Adding to and developing organization theory
Challenges to Organizational Studies: New Metaphors for Making Organizations Meaningful
Symposium #1234; Submission: 13226; Sponsors: (OMT, ODC, OB)
Monday, Aug 8 2016 1:15PM–2:45PM at Anaheim Marriott: Platinum Ballroom 9
http://my.aom.org/program2016/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=13226
Free Access Article for August:
Free until 31 August 2016
Competence in professional practice: A practice theory analysis of police and doctors
Ola Lindberg and Oscar Rantatalo
Human Relations April 2015 68(4): 561–582, first published June 30, 2014 as doi: 10.1177/0018726714532666
http://hum.sagepub.com/content/68/4/561.full.pdf+html
Abstract
This article outlines a theoretical understanding of competence as the inferred potential for desirable activity within a professional practice. By employing the concept of 'teleoaffective structure' as developed in Schatzki's practice theory, our study investigates how notions of competent and excellent professionals are defined in two separate practices in which highly qualified professionals share formal qualifications. The study is comparative and based on a total of 39 interviews carried out in the Swedish National Police Counter-Terrorist Unit (police) and with recruiters of medical interns (doctors) in Swedish healthcare. Results indicate that, despite obvious differences between the professional groups in the study, some remarkable similarities are apparent in what are regarded as high levels of competence. Surprisingly, technical expertise was downplayed as an indicator of high levels of competence in both practices. The professional groups emphasized flexibility, drive/ambition and social competence, as well as the ability to balance between being highly capable and being humble before others, including other groups of professionals as characteristics of excellence. Based on the results, the authors discuss a 'logic of excellence' that can be used to describe mechanisms of competence differentiation in professional practices from a practice theory perspective.
Keywords: competence, medical doctors, police practice theory, professional practice, professionalism
volume 69, number 9, September 2016
Articles:
Identity transition during pregnancy: The importance of role models
Sophie Hennekam
In pursuit of ambidexterity: Managerial reactions to innovation–efficiency tensions
Angeliki Papachroni, Loizos Heracleous and Sotirios Paroutis
The paradoxical effect of self-categorization on work stress in a high-status occupation: Insights from management consulting
Julia Mühlhaus and Onno Bouwmeester
How leader and follower attachment styles are mediated by trust
P.D. Harms, Yuntao Bai and Guohong Helen Han
The subversive craft worker: Challenging 'disutility' theories of management control
Dale Tweedie and Sasha Holley
volume 69, number 8, August 2016
Articles:
Older British employees' declining attitudes over 20 years and across classes
Michael White and Deborah Smeaton
Food and music matters: Affective relations and practices in social justice organizations
Lynne Keevers and Christopher Sykes
Theorization as institutional work: The dynamics of roles and practices
Sébastien Mena and Roy Suddaby
Enabling team learning when members are prone to contentious communication: The role of team leader coaching
John Schaubroeck, Abraham Carmeli, Sarena Bhatia, and Etty Paz
Binary logics and the discursive interpretation of organizational policy: Making meaning of sexual harassment policy
Debbie S Dougherty and Marlo Goldstein Hode
Best wishes,
Claire Castle
Managing Editor, Human Relations
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Email: c.castle@tavinstitute.org
Website: www.humanrelationsjournal.org
Twitter: @HR_TIHR
2-year impact factor: 2.619 Ranked: 4/93 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary and 37/192 in Management
5-year impact factor: 3.544 Ranked: 2/93 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary and 40/192 in Management
Source: 2015 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2016)
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