Globalisation :: Economics Capitalism Economy Essays

GlobalisationIntroductionTo begin with, tell them that they pass on need to look at the essay questions todayLater we will be doing a trial reflective exerciseLets look at GlobalisationMy storyWhen my colleagues and I were faced with redundancy we were fit(p) in a unique position. Or perhaps it wasnt quite so unique, just unspoken experts are not ren consumeed for publicly applying their own theories to themselves. After years working as labour researchers or workplace reposition consultants we found ourselves in the position of having the stories we told other workers and their managements about why qualify was happening being reflected back to us by our managers and the people employed to facilitate our departures. We shifted from being purveyors of the discourses and narratives about why change was necessary to sitting in judgement of whether these very discourses and narratives applied to us, made sense to us, or were believable. Armed with more information than the average p otentially redundant worker, we gathered around photocopiers, peeing coolers, staff room dining tables, coffee shop booths, each others desks - and discussed, argued, complained, questioned. As labour researchers we turned on labour theories, as change consultants we turned on theories of workplace change, and asked ourselves and each other, Is what Ive been saying for the last ten years really the case in my case? Now that Im vote out there amongst it all instead of looking at it from the safety of an analysts lofty heights, does the story look and sound the same? The Globalisation themeThe stories we told the workers went generally like this Globalisation led to economic and industry restructuring which leads to organisational change which means jobs change which means you have to do things incompatiblely to how you did them before and if you do not change, you wont be able to give your customers what they want and you and your company and your country are gone (hereafter call ed The Globalisation Story). Simple. Logical. Inexorable. Until we started telling it to ourselves and to each other. Then, with strange alacrity, we shifted from a reliance on causal explanation to an emphasis on interpretive understanding.Putting yourself inside the pictureWith many of us experts in different stories - some were macroeconomists who understood globalisation theory, some of us were labour or industry economists who understood the theories of work and industry change, some were organisation researchers who knew about change management - we started to pick holes in other peoples stories and they picked holes in ours, many with the preface, Your story doesnt work for me because .