Pragmatic Constructivism Research Articles

Gen Z Employee Management model based on meaning

The subject of the study was the transformation of the management of employees of a new labor generation based on meaning as the management of organizational event-comprehension and personal significance of work for an employee. The purpose of the study: designing a management model for employees of generation Z based on sense (log management). Research objectives: to substantiate the feasibility of a balanced management system for Gen Z employees based on meaning, to develop a model of log management by Gen Z employees, to determine the sequence and main content of the stages of implementing log management by employees, to justify the risks of implementing log management by employees of a new generation. Special attention is paid to ensuring meaningful work activity of employees as a management value. The research methodology consisted of pragmatic constructivism, the method of critical analysis, the actor's approach, the stakeholder approach, the communicative-pragmatic approach, and the modeling method. В The results of the work. A management model for a new generation of employees has been developed, structured in target and organizational-activity blocks. A special contribution to the research of the topic is the implementation in the management model of the understanding of employees of the relationship between the management of organizational event-understanding and the management of personal significance (benefit). The dialectical connection between the understanding of organizational event-meaning and its benefits for the employee is manifested in meaningful work and meaningful collaboration. The scope of application of the results is the sphere of people management in an organization in its explication from a resource approach to a person to a person as a carrier of meaning. This determines the scientific novelty of the research: the development of a management model for Gen Z employees based on meaningful work aimed at achieving organizational goals while realizing personal benefits. Conclusions. The main results of the study are summarized, the conclusion about the expediency of balanced log management by Gen Z employees, formalized in the developed model, is substantiated; the risks of implementing a log management model are indicated.

电商直播中的语用身份探析

电商直播中的语用身份探析

A Cross-cultural Study of Pragmatic Identities Constructed in Chinese and American Marketing Discourse on Social Media

Based on a mini-corpus of Chinese and American marketing discourse on social media (150 discourses each), this study conducts a cross-cultural investigation of pragmatic identity construction in marketing discourse on social media. The results show that in the context of social media, a larger variety of individual pragmatic identities rather than organizational pragmatic identities is employed in both American and Chinese marketing discourses. Chinese and American enterprises both construct six different types of individual pragmatic identities (Experiencer, Sales Representative, Friend, Adviser, Expert and Official Introducer) in marketing discourse. Both Chinese and American marketing discourses tend to build official introducer and sales representative identity more than other identities. Adviser identity is not regularly constructed in both Chinese and American discourses. American marketing discourse on social media adopts the identity of experiencer and adviser more whereas Chinese discourse adopts expert and official introducer identity more than its counterpart. American discourse adopts more subjective identities than objective identities whereas Chinese discourse evenly employs both subjective and objective identities. Three cultural value dimensions (collectivism vs. individualism, high power distance vs. low power distance, relation-driven vs. task-driven) attribute to the different use of the pragmatic identities.

顺应论视角下的调解员语用身份的建构——以《金牌调解》20181213期节目为例

顺应论视角下的调解员语用身份的建构——以《金牌调解》20181213期节目为例

Cyber Language Life Based on Pragmatic Construction Indicators of a Moderately Prosperous Society

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Pragmatic measures for implementation research: development of the Psychometric and Pragmatic Evidence Rating Scale (PAPERS).

The use of reliable, valid measures in implementation practice will remain limited without pragmatic measures. Previous research identified the need for pragmatic measures, though the characteristic identification used only expert opinion and literature review. Our team completed four studies to develop a stakeholder-driven pragmatic rating criteria for implementation measures. We published Studies 1 (identifying dimensions of the pragmatic construct) and 2 (clarifying the internal structure) that engaged stakeholders-participants in mental health provider and implementation settings-to identify 17 terms/phrases across four categories: Useful, Compatible, Acceptable, and Easy. This paper presents Studies 3 and 4: a Delphi to ascertain stakeholder-prioritized dimensions within a mental health context, and a pilot study applying the rating criteria. Stakeholders (N = 26) participated in a Delphi and rated the relevance of 17 terms/phrases to the pragmatic construct. The investigator team further defined and shortened the list, which were piloted with 60 implementation measures. The Delphi confirmed the importance of all pragmatic criteria, but provided little guidance on relative importance. The investigators removed or combined terms/phrases to obtain 11 criteria. The 6-point rating system assigned to each criterion demonstrated sufficient variability across items. The grey literature did not add critical information. This work produced the first stakeholder-driven rating criteria to assess whether measures are pragmatic. The Psychometric and Pragmatic Evidence Rating Scale (PAPERS) combines the pragmatic criteria with psychometric rating criteria, from previous work. Use of PAPERS can inform development of implementation measures and to assess the quality of existing measures.

Medical experts as health knowledge providers

The rise of wemedia in China has brought challenges to public health communication(PHC), such as the change in doctor-patient relations and the vulnerabilityof trust. As few researchers have touched upon the issue of identity constructionduring PHC in Weibo, this study aims to fill this gap and investigate one health informationprovider's discursive construction of multiple identities in Weibo and itspragmatic effect on trust building. Through this study the author attempts to contributeto the existing scholarship on the dynamics of identity-relation constructionin wemedia and the pragmatic construction of trustworthiness in a PHC context.

Trailblazers: Stakeholder motivations for developing degree apprenticeships for the radiography profession

IntroductionEmployer led apprenticeship trailblazer groups develop the occupational standard and end point assessment associated with a particular job or occupation. All degree apprenticeship programmes within England must align to these and for allied health professions, this is a new concept. Exploring stakeholder motivations for being part of the trailblazer groups is essential to inform subsequent curriculum design and implementation for this new model of education. MethodsEighteen semi-structured interviews were undertaken across the three radiography related (diagnostic, therapeutic and sonography) trailblazer groups using a pragmatic constructivist approach. ResultsStrong themes emerged around professional recognition, and conflicts between being ‘educated’ or ‘trained’, and between vocational and academic components of radiography training. Even within these pioneer groups there was a lack of understanding around degree apprenticeship programmes and their potential impact upon the workforce. Whilst the benefits on recruitment and retention of staff through widening participation were acknowledged, there were concerns around apprentice pay and mentorship. Evidence of professional protectionism was uncovered, balanced by professional pride and a strong desire for team working within and between institutions. ConclusionThe study highlighted an urgent need for further research and awareness raising for employers and practitioners, prior to implementation of radiography-related degree apprenticeships. Implications for practiceThis is the first evaluation of stakeholder motivations related to the development of degree apprenticeships within the allied health professions. The results and recommendations for practise will inform the imminent implementation of degree apprenticeships for the three radiography related professions, facilitating a smooth transition to apprenticeships for clinical and education departments.

Educating management accountants as business partners

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a paradigmatic foundation for educators to prepare students of management accounting for the new demands of the role of trusted business partner in practice. Design/methodology/approach The paper argues for the use of pragmatic constructivism as a basis for development of a paradigmatic foundation for educating advanced students of management accounting. Furthermore, it contains an empirical insight through a case example of how pragmatic constructivism can be used as a pedagogical tool in different management accounting educational situations. Findings The analysis shows how pragmatic constructivism can be used as a less reductionist paradigm than realism to tackle the research-teaching-practice deficiencies found in conventional thinking on accounting education. Pragmatic constructivism is shown to provide important methodological and conceptual elements in developing, understanding and guiding the application of management accounting techniques in dynamic business practices. Placing an emphasis on teaching methodological skills relevant for management accountants is shown to have an important impact on students and their ability to act as business partners. Research limitations/implications The analysis is exploratory in the sense that a new paradigmatic framework for educating students of management accounting to be business partners is outlined and illustrated through its implementation in a specific master’s degree programme. However, this analysis should be viewed as only a first step towards developing pragmatic constructivism as a paradigmatic foundation for teaching management accounting as a basis for a business partner role. Originality/value The proposed use of research on pragmatic constructivism as a basis for management accounting education to support a future business partner role is novel in the literature on management accounting. The value of its application lies in its potential to create successful utilisation of the practices of management accounting.

CSR Appropriation Process in Six Member Companies of the Global Compact Network Tunisia

There is currently no work dealing with CSR appropriation through a sensemaking perspective. The purpose of this research is to understand the CSR appropriation process of companies registered in a network through a sensemaking perspective. Anchored in pragmatic constructivism, this research mobilizes an intervention research method in the study of six cases of companies belonging to the Global Compact network for which we have been the coordinator. The data collection method consists of semi-structured and collective interviews as well as observation. The content analysis allowed for an interpretation of the results by applying a "case-oriented strategy", a "replication strategy" and "inter-case" analysis. The results show three stages of sensemaking in which the network intervenes (enactment) according to the stage of practice of CSR in the firm: (1) an intersubjective construction corresponding to pragmatic sensemaking (2) the passage from an intersubjective construction to generic construction characterised by an "organised anarchy" (3) generic construction where the sensemaking is political and procedural as influenced by strategy and corporate culture. The network interferes favourably in the process of sensemaking (enactment) by acting on the strategic technical and the cognitive levels.

Editorial: Seeing beyond social “bubbles” by the help of pragmatic constructivism

Editorial: Seeing beyond social “bubbles” by the help of pragmatic constructivism

Helping as the topoi for interventionist research from a pragmatic constructivist point of view

Helping as the topoi for interventionist research from a pragmatic constructivist point of view

Transfer prices and innovation in public healthcare: Costing and clinical choices in the NHS

AbstractThe establishment of an internal market for clinical services in a publically funded National Health Service (NHS) requires a process for setting transfer prices. Given the values and logics of actors in a public healthcare system, attempts to determine an “optimal” price for specific treatments as prescribed by well‐known transfer pricing texts, are likely to be inappropriate. Rejecting a reductionist model of Economic Man, the study adopted a richer perspective on actor reality through a pragmatic constructivist (PC) methodology. The PC methodology was used to interpret data drawn from a case study of a specialist healthcare centre of English NHS. The case study revealed different realities constructed by clinical and managerial actors. Clinical actors in the study were willing to spread a technological innovation but were not being supported by managers whose reality was influenced by centrally set tariff prices which favoured traditional high cost procedures rather than less costly technical innovations. Characterising the different realities as the “pragmatic truth” of managers and the “proactive truth” of clinicians, the challenge was to bring these together for a fully integrated and coherent solution. This challenge required avoiding a top‐down “command and control” model of governance and greater flexibility for transfer pricing and incentives. More generally, the study supports alternative institutional mechanisms that can routinely promote the spread of new technological innovations which are not only clinically superior but, as this case illustrates, are sometimes cheaper than the current procedures.

New Public Management between reality and illusion: Analysing the validity of performance-based budgeting

Drawing from the theoretical insights of pragmatic constructivism, this paper aims to explain the difficulties faced by organizational actors in the translation of performance-based budgeting (PBB) into practice. The dichotomy of reality and illusion at the centre of pragmatic constructivism sheds light on the limitations and shortcomings that characterize the implementation of a business-like practice introduced as a component of the reform movement known as New Public Management (NPM). The paper investigates the case of an Italian Ministry through the analysis of interviews, policy documents, and governmental reports. The analysis shows that a failed integration of communication, values and aims between actors and an illusionary analysis of factual possibilities constrain the construction of causalities, hence jeopardizing the successful implementation of the performance-based budgeting reform. Rather than engaging in a co-authoring process, the actors are left with illusionary constructs that, while providing the appearance of a compliant organization, fail to produce the desired changes.

The role of the controller in strategic capital investment projects: bridging the gap of multiple topoi

The literature on capital budgeting and investment proposals is rich with techniques, such as portfolio management and stage-gate project management, which rely on a rational approach to strategic capital investment projects. There is, however, a lack of research on the process of managing and coordinating strategic capital investment projects where investment proposals and decisions are seen as human constructions. The controller is an important but seldom noticed actor in this process. This paper draws on a pragmatic constructivist framework to create an understanding of the controller role in strategic capital investment projects and how the controller acts to contribute to create a functioning construct causality in such projects. We conducted a case study of a mining company, which had recently decided on strategic capital investments resulting in the moving of two towns to enable continued operations. Based on a two-step thematic data analysis, our results illustrate that the controller is an essential actor in strategic capital investment projects with high degrees of uncertainty and multiple decision-participants. By using the pragmatic constructivist framework we find that gap-bridging between multiple decision-participants is an essential role for controller, in order to create successful investment proposals. The case study further illustrates that controllers need to learn to speak technical and operational language and to become knowledgeable about business operations to gain trust in order create a functioning construct causality. Our study provides an actor-focused understanding of the organizational and managerial processes within strategic capital investment projects, illustrating how the controller contributes to construct causality therein.

The role of the contract in the network governance construction

Focusing on business networks in which firms from different countries are embedded, the present paper is interested in a better understanding of how the formal and social governance mechanisms are related. In particular, the paper focuses on the construction process of network governance, recognizing the contract as the main coordination and control mechanism for stabilizing the network organizations. This paper aims to examine the process that might lead to the formulation of a contract between firms, comparing two different theories: Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Pragmatic Constructivism (PC). ANT offers an account of how the difference in the parties’ interests was a key point in problematizing the introduction of the contract as an inscription that mobilizes the actors’ interests. However, ANT does not offer sufficient reasons to explain why the translation fails in a cross-national network where different national values may be relevant. Then, the use of PC points out a missed integration between national values, considering the contract a way of thinking. The case study describes the construction process of a cross-cultural network between an Italian, an Albanian and a Kosovar firm operating in the artistic lightening system business. The evidence showed a negative nexus between informal and formal mechanisms of governance

Servitization strategy as a roadmap for the accounting machine

In the last decades contributions on servitization strategy have investigated the role of accounting in supporting it, highlighting the helpfulness of pragmatic constructivism in better understanding the accounting role. Following this advice, we reinterpret the metaphor of the accounting machine from the perspective of pragmatic constructivism and investigate how the accounting machine is used to prevent the so-called servitization paradox. Moving from the relevance of this paradox, the paper aims to examine how awareness of the servitization strategy could facilitate managers in the use of accounting information, communicating the business consequences of the strategy in decisions related to new product development (NPD) projects, typically characterized by cost and investment levels that are not fixed, leaving more room for preventing the servitization paradox. Accordingly, we conducted an interpretive case study in a division of a multinational manufacturing company operating in the semiconductor industry. The case evidence showed how managers become conscious of the functions and services that customers expect from a new device. More specifically, what emerges is how awareness of the servitization strategy helped managers in the use of accounting information throughout the NPD project’s maturity stages, characterized by different degrees of uncertainty. An actor perspective of uncertainty was followed in re-interpreting the different accounting machine that emerged from the evidence. All the evidence of the three NPD stages was interpreted as a process of co-authoring proactive and pragmatic truth.

Academic-based new product development research project and management accounting practice: a pragmatic constructivist approach

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Costing vs. prediction machines in pricing decisions A Pragmatic Constructivist approach

Costing vs. prediction machines in pricing decisions A Pragmatic Constructivist approach

Operationalizing the \u2018pragmatic\u2019 measures construct using a stakeholder feedback and a multi-method approach

ContextImplementation science measures are rarely used by stakeholders to inform and enhance clinical program change. Little is known about what makes implementation measures pragmatic (i.e., practical) for use in community settings; thus, the present study’s objective was to generate a clinical stakeholder-driven operationalization of a pragmatic measures construct.Evidence acquisitionThe pragmatic measures construct was defined using: 1) a systematic literature review to identify dimensions of the construct using PsycINFO and PubMed databases, and 2) interviews with an international stakeholder panel (N = 7) who were asked about their perspectives of pragmatic measures.Evidence synthesisCombined results from the systematic literature review and stakeholder interviews revealed a final list of 47 short statements (e.g., feasible, low cost, brief) describing pragmatic measures, which will allow for the development of a rigorous, stakeholder-driven conceptualization of the pragmatic measures construct.ConclusionsResults revealed significant overlap between terms related to the pragmatic construct in the existing literature and stakeholder interviews. However, a number of terms were unique to each methodology. This underscores the importance of understanding stakeholder perspectives of criteria measuring the pragmatic construct. These results will be used to inform future phases of the project where stakeholders will determine the relative importance and clarity of each dimension of the pragmatic construct, as well as their priorities for the pragmatic dimensions. Taken together, these results will be incorporated into a pragmatic rating system for existing implementation science measures to support implementation science and practice.