Portrait of Authority: A Critical Interrogation of the Ideology of Job and Career Coaching

Autor/inn/en	Dahlstedt, Magnus; Vesterberg, Viktor
Titel	Portrait of Authority: A Critical Interrogation of the Ideology of Job and Career Coaching
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 27 (2019) 2, S.199-213 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dahlstedt, Magnus) ORCID (Vesterberg, Viktor)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2018.1450284
Schlagwörter	Coaching (Performance); Ideology; Job Performance; Employment Potential; Web Sites; Power Structure; Labor Market; Foreign Countries; Career Guidance; Job Search Methods; Job Applicants; Employers; Expertise; Discourse Modes; Organizational Culture; Self Concept; Success; Commercialization; Figurative Language; Compliance (Psychology); Employer Employee Relationship; Behavior Standards; Business; Global Approach; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideologie; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Web-Design; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ausland; Berufsorientierung; Arbeitsplatzsuchtheorie; Bewerber; Expert appraisal; Diskursethik; Unternehmenskultur; Selbstkonzept; Erfolg; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Globales Denken; Schweden
Abstract	This article focuses on job and career coaching provided by a multinational company, as a means of learning how to become employable. On the basis of a critical discourse analysis informed by Fairclough, we interrogate tips and advice in blog posts written by job and career coaches on the company's website. The aim of the article is to examine the power relationships between the coaches, the coachees and the employers in these tips and advice. The analytical focus is directed at descriptions of three subject positions -- the "coach," the "coachee," and the "employer." We explore the ways in which their relationships to each other are legitimised. The tips and advice shape a particular understanding of the contemporary conditions and challenges on the labour market producing an "ideology of job and career coaching," where existing power relationships in working life are legitimised by portraying coaches as neutral authorities and coachees as commodities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01