FROM FEELING TO NAMING:

A CONCRETE APPROACH TO MANAGERIAL NEWSPEAK THROUGH BULLYING AT WORK

OD OSEANJA DO IMENOVANJA:
PRAKTIAN PRISTUP MENADERSKOM NOVOGOVORU O MALTRETIRANJU NA RADNOM MESTU
Predavanje i diskusija dr Anjes Vandeveld-Rugal
By accessing language, the individual is granted the means to represent experiences and to share
meaning. But ill being related to workplace bullying (such as violent or undermining demeanours
from one or more colleagues) makes it hard for the subject to put his/her experience into words.
Agns Vandevelde-Rougale explored this uneasiness. Her fieldwork, which started in France and
continued in Ireland (2010-2014), led her to question the influence of modern management
discourse on the individual and its relation to language. By conducting in-depth interviews with
individuals confronted to bullying at work and crossing these narratives with information from
organizational websites, she suggested that modern managerial discourse (which has expanded
since the 1970s to serve managing human resources in organizations) hinders the expression of
emotions and thereby the understanding of subjective experiences. She argues that this process
roots on an internalization of the managerial discourse, turning it into managerial newspeak, which
weakens the subject as it diminishes its enunciative autonomy and limits its ability to make sense of
his/her emotional experiences.
In this Agora session, Agns Vandevelde-Rougale will draw on her findings and consider the issue
of labelling an experienced or observed phenomenon. The lecture and the discussion will be in
English.

Dr. Anjes Vandeveld-Rugal je antropolog i kliniki sociolog, nauni saradnik na Univerzitetu Paris
Diderot. Sprovela je istraivanja u Francuskoj i u Irskoj. Njena nauna interesovanja su jezik i
govor, emocije, menaderski diskurs i novogovor, maltretiranje na radnom mestu.

http://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/AgnsVandeveldeRougale