Rescuing the Princess: How phronetic wisdom was learned and deployed on Britain’s railways

IF 2.8 3区 管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Management Learning Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI:10.1177/13505076241259132
Nicola J Forsdike, Lynne F Baxter, J Stephen Town
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Previous management learning research on phronesis or practical wisdom has focussed on its local, contextual application rather than its connection to wider ethical and political relationships. Drawing on a new materialities perspective that is helpful in theorising the interconnectedness of contextual practical knowledge and the greater good, this article suggests phronesis is learned by understanding relationships between materialities in different spaces over time. The article is based on a qualitative, longitudinal study of Operation Princess, an actual project that took place on mainland Britain’s railway. Through a composite fiction, we show how under nationalised organisation managers learned phronesis by becoming steeped in wider material relationships over time. Privatisation introduced a financialised perspective that was detached from wider material connections and produced unworkable plans. Operation Princess was rescued by managers who had developed a phronetic appreciation of the interrelationships between employees, trains, services and communities. They learned phronesis through an institutional lengthy formative process of becoming entangled in vital materialities, repeatedly experimenting and doing, supported by intermittent classroom learning. This is a very different approach to the commodified style of management development today which abstracts and condenses, undermining the development of practical wisdom.
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拯救公主英国铁路上如何学习和运用措辞智慧
以往关于phronesis或实践智慧的管理学习研究主要集中在其本地和背景应用上,而不是其与更广泛的道德和政治关系之间的联系上。本文借鉴了一种新的物质性视角,这种视角有助于从理论上说明情境实践知识与更大利益之间的相互联系,本文认为,随着时间的推移,人们可以通过了解不同空间中物质性之间的关系来学习phronesis。文章基于对 "公主行动 "的纵向定性研究,这是一个发生在英国大陆铁路上的实际项目。通过一个综合小说,我们展示了在国有化组织下,管理人员是如何随着时间的推移沉浸在更广泛的物质关系中学会phronesis的。私有化引入了金融化视角,脱离了更广泛的物质关系,产生了不可行的计划。公主行动 "是由那些对员工、列车、服务和社区之间的相互关系有着深刻理解的管理人员拯救的。他们通过与重要的物质性纠缠在一起、反复试验和实践,并辅以间歇性的课堂学习,在体制性的长期形成过程中学习了phronesis。这与当今管理发展的商品化风格截然不同,后者抽象、浓缩,破坏了实践智慧的发展。
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Management Learning
Management Learning MANAGEMENT-
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29.20%
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期刊介绍: The nature of management learning - the nature of individual and organizational learning, and the relationships between them; "learning" organizations; learning from the past and for the future; the changing nature of management, of organizations, and of learning The process of learning - learning methods and techniques; processes of thinking; experience and learning; perception and reasoning; agendas of management learning Learning and outcomes - the nature of managerial knowledge, thinking, learning and action; ethics values and skills; expertise; competence; personal and organizational change
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