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Making claims on value: The rhetoric construction of aesthetic innovation by ethnic minority creatives Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Conceptualizing aesthetic innovation as the social and cultural act of claiming value, we investigate how ethnic minority creatives rhetorically construct their work as innovative, while dealing with contradictory discourses of ethnicity. From our analysis of the rhetorical schemes they deploy to construct aesthetic innovation, three types of argumentations emerged: (1) argumentations relating one’s creative work to one’s unique self and ...
Reproducing monocultural education: Ethnic majority staff’s discursive constructions of monocultural school practices Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
This paper investigates the role of ethnic majority staff in the perpetuation of monocultural education that excludes non-western, ethnic minority cultures and reproduces institutional racism in schools. Based on qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews in four ethnically diverse schools in the Flemish educational system, we specifically investigate the role of ethnic majority staff in the reproduction of monocultural school ...
Disrupting gendered dichotomies: Gender equality in a high-tech Belgian company Universiteit Hasselt
This chapter aims to draw together theoretical lessons on how to effectively foster gender equality at work. Based on the qualitative case study of a Belgian high-tech company employing a considerable number of women throughout the organizational hierarchy, we identify a constellation of policies, practices and narratives which dilute three classical hierarchized gendered dichotomiesat work: (1) male/female identities, (2) ...
Non-managerial management scholarship in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg Universiteit Hasselt
In this chapter, we would like to reconstruct the critically oriented scholarship in management studies conducted in the Benelux – the European cross-national region including Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg – over the last two decades. While reflecting national and regional specificities, we will show how this scholarship relates to the ideas at the core of critical management studies (CMS) and, to a large extent, the broader ...
Constructing positive identities in ableist workplaces: Disabled employees’ discursive practices engaging with the discourse of lower productivity Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
This article explores how disabled workers engage with the ableist discourse of disability as lower productivity in constructing positive identities in the workplace. Disabled employees inhabit a contradictory discursive position: as disabled individuals, they are discursively constructed for what they are unable to do, whereas as employees they are constituted as human resources and expected to be able to produce and create value. Our discourse ...
De effecten van intra-Europese migratie op de Belgische arbeidsmarkt: de migratie van hoogopgeleiden binnen de EU. Universiteit Hasselt
In deze bijdrage geven we een overzicht van het bestaande onderzoek omtrent hoogopgeleide intra-Europese arbeidsmigratie met bijzondere aandacht voor de Belgische en de Vlaamse context. We beginnen met een toelichting van de beleidscontext op Europees, Belgisch en Vlaams niveau. Enerzijds is er het optimisme van de Europese beleidsmakers die intra-Europese arbeidsmigratie als instrument zien om onder andere de Europese jeugdwerkloosheid terug te ...
Diversiteit in de neoliberale arbeidsmarkt Universiteit Hasselt
Een voorspelling maken over de toekomst van de arbeidsmarkt anno 2015 is geen sinecure. Wat we wel weten is dat de ideologie van het nieuw arbeidsbestel op een fundamentele manier het onder druk staande sociaal pact tussen individu, staat en kapitaal zal hertekenen. In deze bijdrage reflecteren we hoe een neoliberale arbeidsideologie (die de rol van werkgevers en de institutionele context negeert en louter op het individu focust) bijzonder ...
A study of the determinants of work-to-family conflict among hospital nurses in Belgium Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Aims: This study examines the relative impact of three sources of work-to-family conflict among hospital nurses: work–family policy use (childcare assistance, schedule flexibility, part-time work),job dimensions (work overload, job autonomy, overtime hours, night shifts, regularity in type of shift, weekend work, hierarchical position, variation in tasks) and organisational support(physician/coworker support). Background: Many studies claim that ...
The Power of Diversity Discourses at Work: On the Interlocking Nature of Diversities and Occupations Universiteit Hasselt KU Leuven
Drawing on Fairclough's comprehensive social theory of discourse as text, social practice and discursive practice, the paper examines how discourses of diversity are implicated in the power dynamics in the Belgian branch of an international automobile company. Our analysis shows how diversity discourses are interlocked with occupations. On the one hand, speakers' occupational practices are conditional for the emergence of multiple, ...