Das Wichtige ist permanent überlagert worden durch das Dringende
Creators: name: Schermann, Alexander
Publisher: name: (:none)
Year: 2017

description: Topic of this paper is the analysis of how working environments change from the perspective of working biographies. To this end, 71 one interviews with employees in geriatric nursing, personnel procurement, the banking industry and telecommunications, that had been conducted beforehand, have been analyzed by means of a grounded-theory based method. This method allows an open-minded approach to the interview partners’ content-related statements and so to develop a theory that has its roots in the data material. The exemplary use of statements gave insight into the most crucial changes of work activities and employment. These changes in working environment are in many areas perceived as negatively challenging. Very often the interview partners told about work intensification, increased emotional challenge as well as time pressure. Additionally, this paper shows the reported positive impacts of change, such as the awareness of the importance of good vocational training offers or – leaving the risks aside – the chances of flexible employment. This encompasses a description of job resources that may soften the impact of those challenges. It became clear that individualization and rationalization are the main factors of change. These two factors are often closely related and so particularly powerful. The data material concerning rationalization showed strong parallels to Max Weber’s model of bureaucracy, which was therefore implemented into this paper.Topic of this paper is the analysis of how working environments change from the perspective of working biographies. To this end, 71 one interviews with employees in geriatric nursing, personnel procurement, the banking industry and telecommunications, that had been conducted beforehand, have been analyzed by means of a grounded-theory based method. This method allows an open-minded approach to the interview partners’ content-related statements and so to develop a theory that has its roots in the data material. The exemplary use of statements gave insight into the most crucial changes of work activities and employment. These changes in working environment are in many areas perceived as negatively challenging. Very often the interview partners told about work intensification, increased emotional challenge as well as time pressure. Additionally, this paper shows the reported positive impacts of change, such as the awareness of the importance of good vocational training offers or – leaving the risks aside – the chances of flexible employment. This encompasses a description of job resources that may soften the impact of those challenges. It became clear that individualization and rationalization are the main factors of change. These two factors are often closely related and so particularly powerful. The data material concerning rationalization showed strong parallels to Max Weber’s model of bureaucracy, which was therefore implemented into this paper.
description: Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse von Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt aus berufsbiographischer Sicht. Dazu wurden 71 schon im Vorfeld geführte Interviews mit Arbeitenden aus der Altenpflege, Personalvermittlung, der Bankenbranche und dem Telekommunikationsbereich mithilfe eines Grounded-Theory basierten Ansatzes ausgewertet. Dieser Ansatz erlaubt es, möglichst frei an die inhaltlichen Äußerungen der Interviewpartner*innen heranzugehen und mithilfe dieser eine im Datenmaterial begründete Theorie hervorgehen zu lassen. Mit exemplarischen Interviewaussagen werden Einblicke in wesentliche Veränderungen von Arbeitstätigkeiten und Arbeitsverhältnissen gewährt. Die Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt werden dabei von den Interviewten in vielen Bereichen negativ beanspruchend wahrgenommen. Oftmals ist von einer Arbeitsintensivierung, erhöhten emotionalen Belastungen und verstärktem Zeitdruck die Rede. Aber auch den berichteten positiven Momenten von Veränderungen wie dem verstärkten Bewusstsein über die Wichtigkeit von angemessenen Weiterbildungsangebot oder – neben den Risiken- auch den Chancen von flexiblen Arbeitsverhältnissen werden in vorliegender Analyse Raum gegeben. Ebenfalls werden arbeitsbezogene Ressourcen beschrieben, die Beanspruchungen abfedern können. Als treibende Kräfte der Veränderungen kristallisierten sich Individualisierung und Rationalisierung heraus. Diese beiden Ursachen der Veränderungen sind aufgrund ihrer oftmaligen engen Verwobenheit besonders wirkmächtig. Im Falle der beobachteten Rationalisierung wird dabei vor allem auf das Bürokratiemodell Max Webers rekurriert, da im Datenmaterial starke Parallelen zu diesem zu erkennen waren.