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    HR-analyse som ledelseskonsept og ledelsesmote

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    Artikkelen drøfter HR-analyse som ledelseskonsept og ledelsesmote. HR analyse handler om å samle inn og analysere HR-data for å kunne fatte bedre beslutninger og har gjennom de siste årene vokst fram til å bli et svært populært konsept blant praktikere og konsulenter innen HR-feltet. Til tross for konseptets popularitet og oppmerksomhet er det blitt viet lite oppmerksomhet fra forskere. Ved å bruke teorier om ledelseskonsepter og ledelsesmoter er formålet med denne artikkelen å bedre kunne forstå utbredelsen av HR-analyse og de sterke kreftene som står bak spredningen av konseptet. Vi presenterer også noen funn fra virksomheters anvendelse av konseptet. 

    Fokus & Forum

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    Redaktørens hjørne

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    Philosophical Practice as Self-modification: An Essay on Michel Foucault’s Critical Engagement with Philosophy

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    This essay argues that what makes Michel Foucault’s oeuvre not only stand apart but also cohere is an assiduous philosophical practice taking the form of an ongoing yet concrete self-modification in the medium of thought. Part I gives an account of three essential aspects of Foucault’s conception of philosophical activity. Beginning with his famous characterization of philosophy in terms of ascēsis, it moves on to articulate his characterization of philosophical practice as a distinct form of meditation, differing from both Cartesian meditation and Hegelian meditation, as it aims to stand vigil for the day to come and operates as a preface to transgression. Part II begins the articulation of crucial traits left implicit in this understanding of philosophy by turning to Foucault’s in-depth investigation of philosophy in Antiquity during his lectures at the Collège de France in the 1980s. First, it develops how philosophy here begins to constitute and distinguish itself by establishing itself as an activity that has a privileged relationship to truth and truth-telling as an unremitting, existentially determining challenge for the philosopher. Further, it instantiates how Platonism elaborates the need for a sustained ‘auto-ascetic’ ethical non-compliant differentiation as the condition of possibility for accessing and stating truth, and then describes how the assertion of an ethical differentiation and attitude in Cynicism takes the form of an insistent combat for another world in this world. Finally, it underlines how the ethical-practical philosophical work upon oneself in Antiquity is developed in an ongoing critical and political exchange with others. Part III indicates how ethical differentiation according to Foucault remains an essential precondition for the practice of philosophy and is further developed in the modern age. This is particularly perspicuous in Kant’s determination of the Enlightenment, in the attitude of modernity exemplified by Baudelaire, and in the history of revolt since the beginning of early Modernity. On this background, Part IV develops how philosophy as an ongoing meditative practice of self-modification leads to an affirmative critique, confirming the virtuality of this world in order to investigate the potentiality in the examined. In this manner, the essay presents Foucault’s philosophical practice as well as an outline of the history of ideas of a seemingly alternate, yet still agenda-setting conception of philosophical practice today

    Demystifying the Sublime City in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things

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    The present study discusses the demystification of the urban sublime in Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things. It sets the term in a US context and discusses its specificity through the examination of the relationship of the urban sublime with a pair of interrelated concepts: the technological sublime and the consumer’s sublime. This theoretical preview verifies that the architectural and technological structure of the city has been subordinated to the logics of capitalist economy. The paper evaluates Auster’s novel as a critique of the deferential elevation of the urban landscape through its reduction to the dystopian images of garbage and waste; through the reversal of the object of the sublime from the infinitely large to the infinitely small, from the urban to the natural; and through the subversion of the power dynamics attributed to the skyscraper, the central emblem of the urban sublime. It asserts that the foregrounding of the act of falling, set against the pronounced upward orientation of the urban landscape, defines the city as an inherently lethal area capable of arousing a single passion linked to the notion of the sublime—terror

    10 år med velfærdsteknologi: Strategi og praksis

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    Velfærdsteknologidagsordenen indtager en væsentlig rolle i diskussion om det danske velfærdssamfund, navnlig på sundheds- og ældreområdet. Artiklen redegør for tendensen og ridser baggrunden op for den aktuelle interesse for velfærdsteknologi som teknologisk satsningsområde. Vi byder ind med en definition af paraplybegrebet velfærdsteknologi og viser, hvordan forhåbningerne til velfærdsteknologi afspejler fire sameksisterende perspektiver; et effektivitets-, empowerment-, medarbejder- og vækstperspektiv. Baseret på resultater fra telemedicinprojektet TeleCare Nord illustrerer vi, hvordan de fire velfærdsteknologiperspektiver udfolder sig i praksis, og vi diskuterer udfordringer forbundet med at realisere forhåbningerne til velfærdsteknologi

    Mellem snak, handling, magt, skuespil og oversættelse - implementeringens dimensioner

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    Inspireret af Mintzbergs artikel ”Five Ps for strategy”, søger denne artikel at skabe klarhed om implementeringsbegrebets flertydighed ved at præsenterer fem dimensioner af implementering; det instrumentelle, fortolkende, legitimerende, politiske og oversættende. De fem dimensioner beskrives og diskuteres i forhold til hinanden og konsekvenserne for praksis. Artiklen kommer dermed med bud på svar på tre spørgsmål: 1. Hvad er implementering? 2. Hvordan foregår implementering 3. Hvornår er noget implementeret

    Hvad er meningen?

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    Hvordan kompenserer vi for den ensidige og tiltagende teknokratisering af menneskesamfundet

    ‘Mål- og resultatstyring’ i universitetssektoren – realitets- eller illusionsdannelse?

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    Moderniseringsstyrelsen har i de seneste år udviklet vejledende materiale til fremme af ‘mål- og resultatstyring’  i departementerne. Denne artikel undersøger, hvor god den udviklede model for mål- og resultatstyring er til at opfylde målsætningen om at skabe effektive institutioner. Undersøgelsen baserer sig på en analyse af centrale begreber i Moderniseringsstyrelsens model til mål- og resultatstyring og i de implementerede resultatkontrakter mellem Ministeriet for Uddannelse og Forskning og universiteterne. Teoretisk bygger vi på pragmatisk konstruktivisme, som opstiller de begrebslige krav, der må stilles til et målings- og styringsværktøj, hvis det skal kunne siges at være et troværdigt redskab til at skabe en praksis, der rent faktisk fungerer. Analysen afslører, at modellen er domineret af dårligt skitserede begreber og mismatcher, der danner grundlag for skabelse af illusioner. Der er således behov for at udvikle en bedre begrebsramme til mål- og resultatstyring af offentlige institutioner. Dette er især væsentligt i en tid, hvor man snakker om at give mere beslutningsautonomi til ledere i den offentlige sektor. Det kræver nemlig et troværdigt begrebsapparat, hvormed ministerierne kan holde disse ledere ansvarlige for resultaterne af deres handlinger

    China's World-Class 2.0: Towards More Institutionalized and Participatory Policymaking?

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    China's quest to have world-class universities has entered a new phase since 2015, with the 'Double World-Class Project' replacing the '985 Project' and the '211 Project' launched in the 1990s. The transition from World-Class 1.0 to World-Class 2.0 provides a good window onto changes in China's policymaking. The prevailing literature has identifi ed broad trends such as institutionalization, decentralization and expanded participation. While this paper fi nds evidence in support of the prevailing literature, it also challenges the thesis of institutionalization, decentralization and expanded participation. The celebrated evolution from 'hierarchical governance' to 'network governance' or from 'consultation' to 'deliberation' in China's policymaking, however desirable, is premature—especially for multibillion, high-stakes policy initiatives such as the 'Double World-Class Project'

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