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1、BridgingActivityTheoryandCriticalDiscourseAnalysis:FourStudiesofFinnishPublicandThirdsectorOrganisationsHeliKaatrakoskiAbstractAnextensivestructuralchangecurrentlyunderwayinFinnishwelfaresocietyisevidentinthechangeinthesocietaldivisionoflabourbetweenthepublic,privateandthirdsectors.This
2、changeseemstobeguidedbytheneo-liberalistNewPublicManagement(NPM)doctrine.Inworkplacesthischangeisevidentintheemergenceofneworganisationalformsandnewwaysoforganisingwork.Fromthepointofviewofemployees,theemergenceofnewformsoforganisationswithblurredandmixedboundariescanaffecttheminmanyway
3、s:workmaybecomefragmented,lesssecureandmoreindividual.Thepressurestocustomerorientation,profitabilityandconstantevaluation,amongothers,createchangesinorganisationsandtheiractivities.NPMtypicallyhasalinearviewoftheworldthroughwhichitunderestimatesthebalancebetweenproductivity,customersan
4、demployees.Inotherwords,NPMemphasisesthepointsofviewoftheorganisations(productivity)anditsservices(customers)whileitunderminesthequalityofworkinglife(employees).Animbalanceisalsoevidentinpowerrelationsbetweenorganisations,thusaffectingemployees’dailywork.Myresearchinterestistwo-layered.
5、Firstly,Iaminterestedinactivitiesthataimtodevelopemployees’ownworkinasituationoforganisationalchange.Forthat,Ifocusonpowerrelationsbetweenagentsininterventionsessions.Secondly,Iamstudyinglocalworkactivityinthecontextofachangingbroadersocietymainlybeinginterestedintheeffectsofsocietalcha
6、ngeasmaterialisedinemployees’speech.Iapproachtheseissuesthroughdiscourses,wordmeaningandthemovementofmeaning.Thetheoreticalframeworkofmystudyisculturalhistoricalactivitytheory,whichisbasedonKarlMarx’smaterialisticviewofhistoricallydevelopedhumanconsciousness.Thetheoryviewshumanactivitya
7、sobject-oriented,mediatedbytoolsandsigns,andsocialandhistoricalinnature.IhavechosentouseFairclough’scriticaldiscourseanalysis(CDA)“method”toanalysemydiscursivedata.Inhisframework,Faircloughdividestheanalysisintothreeinterlinkedlevels:theleveloftext(description,linguistics),thel
