Displaying Competence in Organizations by Pelsmaekers, Katja -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Displaying Competence in Organizations

Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations

1.1 Competence 1.2 Methodological perspectives 1.3 Thematic development

2 ‘Taking Ownership’: Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Competency frameworks and linguistic capital 2.3 Linguistic capital in the ‘entry level’ job interview 2.4 ‘Taking ownership’ and the linguistic penalty 2.5 Conclusion Transcription conventions Notes

3 Equality for Those Who Are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector

3.1 Introduction 3.2 Equal opportunity, diversity and competency management in the public sector 3.2.1 Working on equality: the merit principle, equal opportunity policies and diversity management

3.2.1.1 Merit 3.2.1.2 Equal opportunity policies 3.2.1.3 Diversity

3.2.2 Competency management 3.2.3 Conclusion 3.3 Discourse analysis of the Flemish diversity plans: competency management in the framework of diversity 3.3.1 Research context

3.3.1.1 The Flemish public administration 3.3.1.2 Equal opportunity policies and diversity management in the Flemish public administration 3.3.1.3 Competency management in the Flemish public administration

3.3.2 Research method

3.3.2.1 Ways of knowing: interpretive research in public administration

3.3.3 The corpus 3.3.4 Analysis: discourses on competencies in the diversity action plans of the Flemish public administration 3.4 Conclusion Note

4 The Language of Power: an Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters1

4.1 Introduction 4.2 Method 4.3 Results

4.3.1 Frequency of modifiers 4.3.2 Average use of modifiers 4.3.3 Word frequency analyses 4.3.4 Qualitative analysis

4.4 Conclusion and discussion Notes

5 The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How Political Weblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate’s Preferences1

5.1 The rhetorical presidency and online political communication 5.2 Aims and methodology 5.3 The successful candidate and the electorate 5.4 The leader in a time of crisis 5.5 The Democratic campaign

5.5.1 The negative campaign 5.5.2 The Democratic Party and Barack Obama

5.6 The Republican campaign

5.6.1 The negative campaign 5.6.2 The Republican Party and John McCain

5.7 The voting readership 5.8 Concluding remarks Notes

6 The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews: a Linguistic–Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-)Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews

6.1 Representation of competence in political interviews 6.2 The notion of competence 6.2.1 Competence and politicians 6.2.2 Competence and journalists 6.3 The corpus 6.4 Objectives, research theory and method 6.5 Description and discussion of the data 6.5.1 Representation of the journalist’s competence

6.5.1.1 Repetition of the question 6.5.1.2 Asides

6.5.2 Representation of the politicians’ competences

6.5.2.1 Politicians about themselves 6.5.2.2 Politicians about other politicians: contrast, biased language, telling metaphor and shift in footing

6.5.3 Mutual criticism concerning competences between journalists and politicians

6.5.3.1 Journalists about politicians 6.5.3.2 Politicians about journalists

6.6 Summary and conclusions Notes

7 Competence on Display: Crafting Stories during Newsroom Editorial Conferences

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Data collection, analysis and sharing 7.3 Findings 7.3.1 The Beaulieu story 7.3.2 The ING story 7.4 Conclusion Notes

8 Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals1

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Method and data 8.3 Analysis 8.4 Results 8.5 Conclusion Notes

9 The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements

Introduction 9.1 Aims, method and corpus

9.1.1 Aims 9.1.2 Method

9.1.3 Corpus 9.2 The concept of mission statements

9.2.1 Definition 9.2.2 Related concepts 9.2.2.1 Mission and vision 9.2.2.2 Mission and strategy 9.2.3 Discursive function 9.2.4 Characteristics and components

9.3 The category of purpose

9.3.1 The management approach to purpose 9.3.2 The linguistic approach to purpose

9.4 The category of competence: proposal for a typology and corpus findings

9.4.1 Volition and ability: conceptually related as subject-inherent modal properties 9.4.2 Volition 9.4.3 Social participant-related category 9.4.3.1 Social competence: responsibility 9.4.3.2 Social competence: diversity 9.4.3.3 Social competence: loyalty 9.4.3.4 Social competence: direct participants 9.4.4 Ability 9.4.4.1 Ability: excellence – top ranking 9.4.4.2 Ability: knowledge 9.4.4.3 Ability: skills – talents – creativity 9.4.4.4 Ability: age–experience–tradition (temporal) 9.4.4.5 Ability: structural (subsidiaries/corporate partners) 9.4.4.6 Ability: R&D/innovation 9.4.4.7 Ability: geographical reach 9.4.5 Type and degree of competence in English and German mission statements: conclusions

9.5 Conclusions and further research Notes

10 ‘Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner’: Legitimation in Religious Discourse

10.1 Introduction 10.2 The market society, competence and legitimation 10.3 Theory and method 10.4 Trends and developments in contemporary religion 10.5 Key legitimation strategies 10.6 Closing remarks and open issues Notes

References

Corpus material

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