A master thesis from Aalborg University
Organisationskulturens vilkår
[The conditions of organizational culture]
Forfatter(e)
Semester
3. semester
Uddannelse
Udgivelsesår
2022
Afleveret
2022-01-09
Antal sider
60 pages
Abstract
This report aims to treat one of the biggest cultural challenges for modern workplaces in Denmark; the challenge of growing psychological work pressure in organizations around the country. To introduce this challenge, Danish philosopher and experienced business manager in several prominent Danish organizations Morten Albæk, will provide his insights from modern organizational-culture and thereby provide an idea of how real and present the challenge of psychological work pressure is to Danish organizations. Furthermore, this report will introduce the concept of Human Resource Management, to investigate the foundation for modern organizational culture, to evaluate its conditions for preventing psychological work pressure. To answer this question, the report will present Danish philosopher Ole Fogh Kirkeby, and his theory of “The Free Organization”, which is an idealistic theory of how organizations can add more freedom to their culture, and thereby improve the conditions for the respective organization to prevent psychological work pressure within their organization. Thereafter, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, and his idea of development of ideologies within any given culture, will provide insights to how cultural development is problematic, and how the individual responsibilities are problematic to clarify within a cultural problem. Both Kirkeby and Zizek´s notions of cultural life and development – and the relative conditions to control this development - will hereafter be applied in an analysis of the most relevant notions from Human Resource Management. Thereby, Zizek and Kirkeby’s theories will provide an analysis of Human Resource Management to clarify and investigate the question of an organization´s cultural conditions for preventing psychological work pressure, which will lead to a discussion of the reports problem statement: How are an organization´s cultural conditions for preventing psychological work pressure? This problem statement will hereby be subject to a critical comparative notion-analysis, in which Kirkeby and Zizek will provide the cultural-philosophical notions, which will be applied in a critically discussing analysis of relevant Human Resource Management phenomena, which will provide insights to an organization´s cultural conditions for preventing psychological work pressure. Thereby this report will treat the problem of psychological work pressure from a cultural-philosophical perspective, through analyzing the foundations for modern organizational culture, and its effect on the conditions for preventing psychological work pressure in the best possible manner
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