Cand.soc.PKL - Politisk Kommunikation & Ledelse / MSocSc in Political Communication & Management
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En analyse af New Partnership for Africa´s DevelopmentDyani, Thandi Cecilie Dirch (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the last 50 years the African continent has gone through an immense transformation. From the era of colonisation to the independence of African nations and in recent years the uprising of a pan-African movement that has institutionalised through the making of the African Union and its developmental programme New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). NEPAD has been portrayed as the first serious development initiative that has arisen internally from Africa, an initiative that the world of development has embraced as Africa’s primary continental development programme. Somehow NEPAD’s impact and implementation of priorities as well as the positive reactions to the programme has faded since its formation in 2001. The communication as to why leads to conclusions that centres itself on themes as corruption, conflict, food crisis, lack of financial resources and so forth. This thesis looks at other explanatory influences that can lead to a conclusion as to why NEPAD’s impact is limited in arguing that communication in regards to NEPAD also shapes the way NEPAD functions. Communication, and the power structures an analysis of communication unfolds, has profoundly shaped the perception of Africa and African developmental issues. By using Michel Foucault genealogical criticism on liberal moral and rationalities this thesis takes its starting point in the construction of an Africa discourse. It reveals a Liberal logic that influences the perception of African nation states as ‘weak’ or ‘fragile’ that need to be empowered to become ideal strong liberal democracies as the one we see in Denmark. These perceptions are then integrated further in the analysis of ‘the African development field’ that focuses on two agents - NEPAD and Denmark’s development agency Danida. Field, agents and the relations between them are constructed using Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical elements on symbolic power and forms of institutional and economical capital. Through these theoretical fundamentals NEPAD’s position within the African development field is discussed by examining the liberal communicational structures that influences and limits NEPAD. Furthermore how these communications hinder an actual implementation process and thereby ultimately influence NEPAD’s mandate and success. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10417/871 Files in this item: 1
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En afhandling om de konstitutive effekter, der er forbundet med nedbringelse af sygefravær på de danske arbejdspladser.Andersen, Jonas Thorbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Nærværende speciale omhandler de konstitutive effekter for ledelsesrummet på de danske arbejdspladser, der er behæftet med Beskæftigelsesministeriets og Lederens Hovedorganisations kommunikation om nedbringelse af sygefravær. Med udgangspunkt i en Luhmann-inspireret formanalyse viser specialet, at Beskæftigelsesministeriets og Ledernes Hovedorganisations kommunikation, når den knytter an til nedbringelse af sygefravær som et vækstpotentiale, markerer ledelsens ansvar både overfor medarbejderen og produktiviteten. For at ledelsen kan fremstå som ansvarlig skal den udvise bekymring for sine medarbejderes sundhedsmæssige velvære. Dette sker ud fra en trivselslogik. Derudover skal ledelsen udvise aktiv indgriben i forhold til sygefravær ud fra en vækstlogik. Det at ledelsen skal udvise omsorg overfor sine medarbejdere, får imidlertid den konstitutive effekt, at relationen mellem leder og medarbejder bliver gjort intim og at medarbejderen gennem en genindførselsproces træder frem som ’det hele menneske’ i trivselskommunikationen. Samtidigt træder medarbejderen frem som det produktive menneske i vækstkommunikationen. Ledelsens dobbelte ansvarsbyrde bliver løst gennem brugen af dialogteknologi, som kampagnen ”Mere Nærvær – Mindre Fravær” stiller til rådighed. Herigennem internaliseres ledelseskonflikten i den enkelte medarbejder og ledelse bliver gjort til et spørgsmål om selvledelse. Medarbejderen er nu selv gjort ansvarlig for at opretholde sin trivsel og dermed også sin produktivitet. Den ellers frie dialog viser sig at være forbundet med en forpligtelse om at opretholde sin trivsel og sin produktivitet. Forpligtelsen er ikke overfor ledelsen, men overfor medarbejderens nærmeste kolleger. Begrebet sygenærvær bliver i den forlængelse introduceret. Ved at benytte sig af muligheden for sygenærvær kan man som medarbejder sikre godt arbejdsmiljø og trivsel. Dette betyder samtidigt, at de medarbejdere som ikke benytter sig af muligheden for at være sygenærværende opfattes som værende i mistrivsel og direkte skyld i dårligt arbejdsmiljø. Den selvledende medarbejders selvforhold gøres hele tiden til et spørgsmål om trivsel og produktivitet, og den selvledende medarbejder må konstant granske sit indre for at finde løsninger på organisatoriske sammenbrud som tilgodeser både trivslen og produktiviteten. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10417/872 Files in this item: 1
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Henten, Johan Chemnitz; Øyrabø Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis at hand with the title ”Politisk ledelse på Christiansborg” is the culmination of our studies in Political Communication and Management at Copenhagen Business School and is especially motivated by the fact that not before our thesis a comprehensive analysis have been made on the conceptualization of, and exceptional conditions for, leadership in the political parties at the Danish Parliament. It has been a very interesting study to conduct for the reason alone that leadership in this area has such a great impact on the society we live in. Our analytical strategy is a contemporary diagnostic analysis with a historic stamp and the thesis is divided in two main analyses. But before the two main analyses we present an opening analysis on the exceptional conditions for leadership in politics. This shorter opening analysis is empirically based solely on interviews with former and current political leaders at the Danish Parliament, and results in three main findings. First: political leadership at Christiansborg has a certain logic inherent which is saturated with strategy. Second: An exclusive condition in political leadership at Christiansborg is that you constantly have to conduct oneself strategically to the media and third: that the politicians at Christiansborg today see themselves as increasingly professionalized. This opening analysis will lead up to the two main analyses which is a combination of a historic semantic exploration, inspired by Reinhart Kosellecks Begriffsgeschichte, of how the concept of political leadership has been conceptualized from the early 20th century until today and a contemporary dispositif analysis, inspired by Michel Foucault and his concept of dispositifs, of how political leadership is conceptualized in the political parties at Christiansborg today illustrated through three cases. In the historic analysis we explore how political leadership as concept in the first half of the 20th century is semantically condensed with professional management as its counter concept and how this concept/counter concept distinction becomes more and more indistinct or blurred and thus how semantics and technologies with its source in professional management in increasingly degree takes part in the conceptualizing of political leadership. This leads up to the dispositif analysis on how political leadership today is conceptualized at the political parties at Christiansborg. We show how all three empirical cases are expressions of an increased professionalization, but also that political leadership at Christiansborg is conceptualized in divergent and unique ways especially determent by the specific history and culture of each political party. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10417/873 Files in this item: 1
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Et speciale om institutlederes meningsskabelse i en reformtidDegn, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Within the past decades Danish and European universities and the public sector in general, have undergone several reforms – a process which in the case of the Danish universities reached its preliminary culmination in 2003 with a far-reaching reform of especially the management structure. The reform has been heatedly discussed both within the universities and in the media, and the debate has clarified two different perceptions of the purpose and role of the university in society, which clash quite significantly. Between these two perceptions we find the department managers who are required to act sensibly in this complex environment, both as personnel, administrative, strategic and scientific managers. I discuss this situation through an analysis of the institutional environment of department managers, using institutional theory and Karl E. Weicks concept of sensemaking. The analysis shows that the institutional identity of the university clashes significantly with the political narrative about the university reform, especially in regards to the construction of the manager-role and the role of the public administrator. Legitimate behavior connected with these roles is mutually exclusive in the two narratives. An alternative institutional identity is identified in material from The Technical University of Denmark, which is more in tune with the political construction of the role and purpose of the university. I investigate the sensemaking process of the department managers of three Danish universities, to explore how meaning is created on this level, and which norms and perceptions from their institutional environment, the department managers reproduce and exclude in their sensemaking process. I discuss how the rationality and the different institutions of the university reform pass through a sensemaking process at this level, and conclude that a significant filter is established, which filters out elements which clash with the perceived institutional identity and that a new meaning is created using institutions which do not clash with this identity. I find that especially an identity conflict between the role as a scientist and the role as a manager, causes the possibility for action among the department leader to be reduced. I present several considerations which could usefully be brought into future reform processes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10417/874 Files in this item: 1
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Speciale om Danmarks udvælgelse af kvoteflygtningeKohl, Katrine Syppli (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The criteria for the Danish selection of quota refugees for resettlement were altered by the introduction of L 403 of June 1, 2005. The law stipulated that henceforth “the applicant's chances of settling in Denmark and benefiting from a residence permit” should be taken into account. The so-called “integration potential” of a refugee is to be judged by officials of the Danish Immigration Service during a personal interview in the country of first asylum assessing factors such as language skills, educational background, work experience, familial situation, network, age, and motivation. The thesis explores how different rationalities make the Danish resettlement practice possible. The questions answered are: What ideal of government can be found in problematizations of the quota refugee in connection with the law of 2005? How is the quota refugee objectified and by which technologies does the government seek to govern his or her process of integration? How were the criteria used during a quota travel to Nepal in 2008? Drawing on Michel Foucault - notably his concepts of problematization, dispositifs or regimes of practice, biopolitics, power as productive and working through subjectivation and of the illiberal strategies inherent in liberal governmental rationalities – the thesis explores the Danish resettlement practice from a perspective of government. The thesis shows the refugee as a hybrid figure that is subject to different norms. The change in selection practice demonstrates that other rationalities e.g. the refugee as subject of care or subject of rights have been subjugated by a rationality of security that views the refugee as a risk. The problematizations of the quota refugee shows that the very same features – e.g. traumatization – that makes the refugee a paradigmatic subject of care are seen as enlarging his risk to society. From the point of view of among other factors an economic rationality, „the national order of things‟ and an ethno-cultural integration strategy it appears obvious to attempt to select the refugees to care for in a way that allows their perceived risk to be managed. The new approach to refugee selection has thus been made possible by the mediation of the concept of „risk‟. By changing perspective from the refugee‟s past and current situation to his future level of risk refugees can be divided and classified on the basis of a scale of integration potential - and with reference to the welfare of society some refugees can be denied help. To do so the administration must engage in what the thesis calls „social divination‟ - the utopian game of „crystal-balling‟ the future of the quota applicants. Parallel with the selection of refugees are a range of conscious attempts to mold the refugee to a certain type of liberal subject who assumes responsibility for his or her own process of integration while accepting Denmark “as it is”. This goal is sought accomplished by technologies such as the Declaration regarding the conditions for resettlement in Denmark, briefings and cultural-orientation courses. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10417/875 Files in this item: 1
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