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Organisational change and the care of the self : stress management as ethical self-problematisation

Kelly, Peter 2002, Organisational change and the care of the self : stress management as ethical self-problematisation, in TASA 2002 : Proceedings of the 2002 Australian Sociological Association conference, TASA, [Brisbane, Qld.].

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Title Organisational change and the care of the self : stress management as ethical self-problematisation
Author(s) Kelly, Peter
Conference name Australian Sociological Association. Conference (2002 : Brisbane, Qld.)
Conference location Brisbane, Qld.
Conference dates 5-6 July 2002
Title of proceedings TASA 2002 : Proceedings of the 2002 Australian Sociological Association conference
Editor(s) [unknown]
Publication date 2002
Publisher TASA
Place of publication [Brisbane, Qld.]
Keyword(s) organisational change
workplace stress
Foucault
care of the self
risk management
Summary In diverse arenas there is much discussion about the dangerousness of contemporary lifestyles, including the stressful nature of work. These stresses associated with contemporary lifestyles and work are dangerous in so far as they are conceived as placing at-risk the emotional, physical and psychic health and wellbeing of large populations. In this paper I engage with debates about the stressful nature of teachers’ work, and the ways in which teacher health and wellbeing is constructed as being central to the task of delivering more effective schools. I am not so much concerned with the nature of teacher stress as an indication of individual physical, emotional or psychic health and wellbeing. Rather I am more concerned with understanding how it is that at this particular historical juncture the self can be so widely conceived in terms of stress. Moreover, what processes make it possible at this moment to link the success or otherwise of a massive institutional process of state regulated schooling to the health and wellbeing of teachers and the management of this health and wellbeing by school managers?
Language eng
Field of Research 160805 Social Change
Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30039924

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