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AUTHOR
Paavo Lintula
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Maakuntalehden toimittajan toimintatila teknis-rationaalisessa ajassa
2005
This dissertation deals with how journalists in regional newspapers conceptualize their profession, jobs and lives — their ‘action scope’ — in the dynamics of a newspaper organization and with which goals, expectations and interests they interpret these dynamics and work there. In this dissertation, action scope means broad autonomy and the possibility to influence work, the goals of work and how work is done, including planning.The theoretical framework, the paradigm, of the study is grounded on critical realism. Critical management studies and institutional theory is one cornerstone of the paradigm, and the regulation theory of action is another cornerstone. The paradigm is supported by o…
Scope of Action as Scene of 'Everyday Drama' – A study in a Finnish newspaper. An institutional and critical perspective to the interpretation of emp…
2008
Occupational psychology deals with the work of an individual person with all its characteristics and implications, but refrains from meddling with the structures and dynamics of the employer organization. Organizational studies, on the other hand, are very little concerned with the work of a single employee and its impacts on the individual. This paper describes how the ‘grey area’ between the disciplines can be covered by integrating the action regulation theory, an approach of occupational psychology, with the institutional and critical perspective of organization studies. Scope of action, the pivotal area of the action regulation theory, is examined with results derived from an ethnograp…